Reduction and Unification in Natural Language Ontology
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Elements in Semantics
ISBN-10
1009559656
ISBN-13
9781009559652
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
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GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 16th, 2025
Print length
86 Pages
Weight
141 grams
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22.90 x 15.20 x 0.50 cms
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This Element investigates which ontological categories (such as individuals, properties, events, degrees, and kinds) are minimally required to provide a semantics for natural language. It yields insights into the requirements on minimal semantic ontologies for natural language and the challenges for semantic ontology engineering.
Semantic theories for natural language assume many different kinds of objects, including (among many others) individuals, properties, events, degrees, and kinds. Formal type-theoretic semantics tames this ''zoo'' of objects by assuming only a small number of ontologically primitive categories and by obtaining the objects of all other categories through constructions out of these primitives. This Element surveys arguments for this reduction of semantic categories. It compares the ontological commitments of different such reductions and establishes relations between competing foundational semantic ontologies. In doing so, it yields insights into the requirements on minimal semantic ontologies for natural language and the challenges for semantic ontology engineering.
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