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Logic, Language and Computation, Volume 3

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.

354 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2001

Lecture Notes

Language and Linguistics: Formal Logic and Computational Linguistics

Philosophy: Logic and Philosophy of Language


Table of Contents

Preface
Contributors
1. Epistemic Utility in Commonsense Reasoning
[I]Janet Aisbett and Greg Gibbon[I]
2. Conceptual Covers in Dynamic Semantics
[I]Maria Aloni[I]
3. Characterization Results for d-Horn Formulas
[I]Carlos Areces, Verónica Becher and Sebastián Ferro[I]
4. A Glimpse into Algorithmic Information Theory
[I]Cristian S. Calude[I]
5. Information States, Attitudes and Dependent Record Types
[I]Robin Cooper[I]
6. The Semantics of Dynamic Conjunction
[I]Paul Dekker[I]
7. Concept Combination: A Geometrical Model
[I]Peter Gärdenfors[I]
8. Identity in Epistemic Semantics
[I]Jelle Gerbrandy[I]
9. An Implicit Argument Analysis of Japanese Zeros
[I]Yasuhiro Katagiri[I]
10. A Situation Semantic Account of Topic vs. Nominative Marking
[I]Yookyung Kim[I]
11. Belief and the Epistemic Channel
[I]Hisashi Komatsu[I]
12. Functions, Representations, and Zombies
[I]Gregory R. Mulhauser[I]
13. Aspect Analysis in Arrow Logic
[I]Satoshi Tojo[I]
14. Logical Constructions Suggested by Vision
[I]Michiel van Lambalgen[I]
15. Information in Discourse: A Game for Many Agents
[I]Kees Vermeulen[I]
16. How to Recover From (Non)Monotonic Inconsistencies
[I]Cees Witteveen and Wiebe van der Hoek[I]

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