This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Workshop on Vagueness in Communication, VIC 2009, held as part of ESSLLI 2009, in Bordeaux, France, July 20-24, 2009.
The 11 contributions presented shed a light on new aspects in the area of vagueness in natural language communication. In contrast to the classical instruments of dealing with vagueness - like multi-valued logics, truth value gaps or gluts, or supervaluations - this volume presents new approaches like context-sensitivity of vagueness, the sharpening of vague predicates in context, and the modeling of precision levels.
Author(s): Rick Nouwen, Robert van Rooij, Uli Sauerland (auth.), Rick Nouwen, Robert van Rooij, Uli Sauerland, Hans-Christian Schmitz (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6517 Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 207
Tags: Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Information Storage and Retrieval; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Database Management; Computation by Abstract Devices
Front Matter....Pages -
Introduction....Pages 1-12
On the Psychology of Truth-Gaps....Pages 13-36
The Rationality of Round Interpretation....Pages 37-50
Supervaluationism and Classical Logic....Pages 51-63
Perceptual Ambiguity and the Sorites....Pages 64-90
Context-Dependence and the Sorites....Pages 91-107
Temporal Vagueness, Coordination and Communication....Pages 108-126
Vagueness as Probabilistic Linguistic Knowledge....Pages 127-150
The Relative Role of Property Type and Scale Structure in Explaining the Behavior of Gradable Adjectives....Pages 151-168
Contradictions at the Borders....Pages 169-188
Notes on the Comparison Class....Pages 189-206
Back Matter....Pages -
