Logic, Language and Computation

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Pub. Date: 2001-03-21
Publisher(s): Stanford Univ Center for the Study
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Summary

With the rise of the internet and the proliferation of technology to gather and organize data, our era has been defined as "the information age." With the prominence of information as a research concept, there has arisen an increasing appreciation of the intertwined nature of fields such as logic, linguistics, and computer science that answer the questions about information and the ways it can be processed. The many research traditions do not agree about the exact nature of information. By bringing together ideas from diverse perspectives, this book presents the emerging consensus about what a conclusive theory of information should be. The book provides an introduction to the topic, work on the underlying ideas, and technical research that pins down the richer notions of information from a mathematical point of view. The book contains contributions to a general theory of information, while also tackling specific problems from artificial intelligence, formal semantics, cognitive psychology, and the philosophy of mind. There is focus on the dynamics of information flow, and also a consideration of static approaches to information content; both quantitative and qualitative approaches are represented.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Contributors xv
Epistemic Utility in Commonsense Reasoning
1(22)
Janet Aisbett
Greg Gibbon
Conceptual Covers in Dynamic Semantics
23(26)
Maria Aloni
Characterization Results for d-Horn Formulas
49(18)
Carlos Areces
Veronica Becher
Sebastian Ferro
A Glimpse into Algorithmic Information Theory
67(18)
Cristian S. Calude
Information States, Attitudes and Dependent Record Types
85(22)
Robin Cooper
The Semantics of Dynamic Conjunction
107(22)
Paul Dekker
Concept Combination: A Geometrical Model
129(18)
Peter Gardenfors
Identity in Epistemic Semantics
147(14)
Jelle Gerbrandy
An Implicit Argument Analysis of Japanese Zeros
161(18)
Yasuhiro Katagiri
A Situation Semantic Account of Topic vs. Nominative Marking
179(22)
Yookyung Kim
Belief and the Epistemic Channel
201(16)
Hisashi Komatsu
Functions, Representations, and Zombies
217(24)
Gregory R. Mulhauser
Aspect Analysis in Arrow Logic
241(24)
Satoshi Tojo
Logical Constructions Suggested by Vision
265(30)
Michiel van Lambalgen
Information in Discourse: A Game for Many Agents
295(24)
Kees Vermeulen
How to Recover From (Non) Monotonic Inconsistencies
319
Cees Witteveen
Wiebe van der Hoek

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