Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics First International Conference, LACL '96, Nancy, France, September 23-25, 1996. Selected Papers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Retore, Christian (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1997.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1997.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; 1328
• Subjects: Natural language processing (Computer science).; Architecture, Computer.; Mathematical logic.; Computer logic.; Artificial intelligence.; Natural Language Processing (NLP).; Computer System Implementation.; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.; Logics and Meanings of Programs.; Artificial Intelligence.

This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics, LACL '96, held in Nancy, France in April 1996. The volume presents 18 revised full papers carefully selected and reviewed for inclusion...

Table of Contents:

• Logical aspects of computational linguistics: An introduction
• Partial proof trees, resource sensitive logics and syntactic constraints
• Inessential features
• Linear logic as logic programming: An abstract
• Derivational minimalism
• Tree adjoining grammars in noncommutative linear logic
• Constructing different phonological bracketings from a proof net
• Vagueness and type theory
• A natural language explanation for formal proofs
• Models for polymorphic Lambek Calculus
• Sloopy Identity
• A family of decidable feature logics which support HPSG-style set and list constructions
• Language understanding: A procedural perspective
• The automatic deduction of classificatory systems from linguistic theories (abridged)
• A belief-centered treatment of pragmatic presupposition
• Connected sets of types and categorial consequence
• Generation as deduction on labelled proof nets
• Semilinearity as a syntactic invariant
• Quantitative constraint logic programming for weighted grammar applications
• Strict LT2 : Regular :: Local : Recognizable
• Pomset Logic and variants in natural languages
• Constraint logic programming for computational linguistics
• Representation theorems for residuated groupoids.