A finite-state approach to event semantics

T. Fernando1
1Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Tóm tắt

Events employed in natural language semantics are characterized in terms of regular languages, each string in which can be regarded as a motion picture. The relevant finite automata then amount to movie cameras/projectors, or more formally, to finite Kripke structures with partial valuations. The usual regular constructs (concatenation, choice, etc) are supplemented with superposition of strings/automata/languages, realized model-theoretically as conjunction.

Từ khóa

#Automata #Motion pictures #Natural languages #Cameras #Computer science #Educational institutions #Cost accounting #Proposals #Labeling

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