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Monads for natural language semantics

Chung-chieh Shan

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Abstract

Accounts of semantic phenomena often involve extending types of meanings and revising composition rules at the same time. The concept of monads allows many such accounts -- for intensionality, variable binding, quantification and focus -- to be stated uniformly and compositionally.

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14 pages
Journal reference
Proceedings of the 2001 European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information student session, ed. Kristina Striegnitz, 285-298
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Subjects
cs.CLComputation and Language cs.PLProgramming Languages

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    • That colloquium looked nice, I assume no slides are available? Barker is anouncing another seminar on deep learning and semantics, that looks intriguing from the attached public materials. I think that compsci furnishes ideas from formal language parsing that can be toy models…

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