Formal Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural Language Querying

by James Clifford

This book discusses the connection between two areas of semantics, namely the semantics of databases and the semantics of natural language, and links them via a common view of the semantics of time. It is argued that a coherent theory of the semantics of time is an essential ingredient for the success of efforts to incorporate more 'real world' semantics into database models. This idea is a relatively recent concern of database research but it is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521602742
• ISBN13: 9780521602747
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.7"