Overview
- Discusses Database Semantics as agent-based data-driven theory of how natural language communication works
- Compares agent-based data-driven and sign-based substitution-driven approaches in speak and hear mode
- Collects recent research on computational cognition, grammatical disambiguation or predicate calculus
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
The motivation is to compare two approaches for an ontology of communication: agent-based data-driven vs. sign-based substitution-driven. Agent-based means: design of a cognitive agent with (i) an interface component for converting raw data into cognitive content (recognition) and converting cognitive content into raw data (action), (ii) an on-board, content-addressable memory (database) for the storage and content retrieval, (iii) separate treatments of the speak and the hear mode. Data-driven means: (a) mapping a cognitive content as input to the speak-mode into a language-dependent surface as output, (b) mapping a surface as input to the hear-mode into a cognitive content as output. Oppositely, sign-based means: no distinction between speak and hear mode, whereas substitution-driven means: using a single start symbol as input for generating infinitely many outputs, based on substitutions by rewrite rules.
Collecting recent research of the author, this beautiful, novel and original exposition begins with an introduction to DBS, makes a linguistic detour on subject/predicate gapping and slot-filler repetition, and moves on to discuss computational pragmatics, inference and cognition, grammatical disambiguation and other related topics. The book is mostly addressed to experts working in the field of computational linguistics, as well as toenthusiasts interested in the history and early development of this subject, starting with the pre-computational foundations of theoretical computer science and symbolic logic in the 30s.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Roland Hausser is Professor Emeritus for Theoretical and Computational Linguistics at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg and former director of its Laboratory of Computational Linguistics (CLUE), between 1989 and 2011. After obtaining his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin, the author held various positions at Carnegie Mellon, Stanford University or Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Prof. Hausser has been active and made significant contributions in the fields of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics, Human-Computer Interaction, Formal Grammars and Database Semantics. His research resulted in around 40 journal papers and conference proceedings, and he is the author of the Springer books “Foundations of Computational Linguistics”, “A Computational Model of Natural Language Communication” and “Computational Linguistics and Talking Robots”.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ontology of Communication
Book Subtitle: Agent-Based Data-Driven or Sign-Based Substitution-Driven?
Authors: Roland Hausser
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22739-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22738-7Published: 04 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22741-7Published: 05 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-22739-4Published: 03 January 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 258
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge based Systems, Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics