scholarly journals Aware Computing in Spatial Language Understanding Guided by Cognitively Inspired Knowledge Representation

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masao Yokota
Keyword(s):  
Predicate Logic ◽  
Mental Image ◽  
Semantic Theory ◽  
Spatial Language ◽  
Image Model ◽  
Description Language ◽  
Language Understanding ◽  
Subjective Knowledge ◽  
Cross Media ◽  
Human Attention

Mental image directed semantic theory (MIDST) has proposed an omnisensory mental image model and its description languageLmd. This language is designed to represent and compute human intuitive knowledge of space and can provide multimedia expressions with intermediate semantic descriptions in predicate logic. It is hypothesized that such knowledge and semantic descriptions are controlled by human attention toward the world and therefore subjective to each human individual. This paper describesLmdexpression of human subjective knowledge of space and its application to aware computing in cross-media operation between linguistic and pictorial expressions as spatial language understanding.

Adverbs

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Higginbotham
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Logical Form ◽  
Semantic Theory ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Order Logic ◽  
Philosophical Logic ◽  
Language Understanding ◽  
Higher Order Logic ◽  
The Subject

Adverbs are so named from their role in modifying verbs and other non-nominal expressions. For example, in ‘John ran slowly’, the adverb ‘slowly’ modifies ‘ran’ by characterizing the manner of John’s running. The debate on the semantic contribution of adverbs centres on two approaches. On the first approach, adverbs are understood as predicate operators: for example, in ‘John ran slowly’, ‘ran’ would be taken to be a predicate and ‘slowly’ an operator affecting its meaning. Working this out in detail requires the resources of higher-order logic. On the second approach, adverbs are understood as predicates of ‘objects’ such as events and states, reference to which is revealed in logical form. For example, ‘John ran slowly’ would be construed along the lines of ‘there was a running by John and it was slow’, in which the adverb ‘slowly’ has become a predicate ‘slow’ applied to the event that was John’s running. Since adverbs are exclusively modifiers, they are classed among the syncategorematic words of terminist logic, the investigation of which carried the subject forward from Aristotle in the thirteenth century. (The contrasting ‘categoremata’ – grammatical subjects and predicates – are those words which have meaning independently.) They are of contemporary interest for philosophical logic and semantic theory, because particular accounts of them carry implications for the nature of combinatorial semantics and language understanding, and for ontology.

scholarly journals CRITICAL ANALYSES OF NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP) IN UNDERSTANDING SEMANTICS

World Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (9(49)) ◽  
pp. 12-15
Author(s):  
Farida Huseynova
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Semantic Theory ◽  
Language Understanding

Today, language understanding systems do quite many useful things with processing natural language, even they are able to process the data much faster than humans are. Nevertheless, they do not have the same logical understanding of natural language yet as humans have and the interpretation capabilities of a language understanding system depending on the semantic theory is not sufficient in all aspects. The research is centered on some of the important issues that arise using it in natural language processing.

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