What's Behind Google's Purchase of Applied Semantics?
Last week, Google acquired Applied Semantics, a company that provides domain name, contextual advertising, and enterprise search solutions. The acquisition gives Google new traffic for its paid listings and new strengths in the contextual ... [... more]
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Compositionality in Formal Semantics: Selected Papers by ...
Book Description: Barbara H. Partee has played a central role in developing the now-flourishing field of formal semantics, bringing the formal semantic approach developed by logicians together with a linguistically sophisticated account of the syntax of [... more]
$55.95
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Formal Semantics
This accessible introduction to formal, and especially Montague, semantics within a linguistic framework, presupposes no previous background in logic, but takes students step-by-step from simple predicate/argument structures and their interpretation to [... more]
$120.00
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Weeds and Words
As I've grown older, I have learned that weeds are nothing but a matter of semantics. With an acre and a half of a somewhat cared-for and cultivated landscape, I've spent many years waging a war against chaos. First, it was the glyphosate to take ... [... more]
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Examining the Pieces of the Service Puzzle
Last week, I promised to explore the difference between architectures and service-oriented architectures. Here's the kicker: There isn't a difference. Or there's a world of difference. It gets down to semantics. There isn't a difference if you ... [... more]
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Lexical Semantics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
An elegant exposition of how semantics is done: A mature science, like Physics, has a panoply of formalisms, apparati, and methods for making epistemic progress. But in a newer science, like semantics, how do you even get off the ground? Cruse here [... more]
$55.00
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Formal Semantics: An Introduction (Cambridge Textbooks ...
Book Description: This accessible introduction to formal, and especially Montague, semantics within a linguistic framework, presupposes no previous background in logic, but takes students step-by-step from simple predicate/argument structures and their [... more]
$50.00
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Semantics, Tense, and Time: An Essay in the Metaphysics ...
Good on language, not so good on metaphysics: In this book, Ludlow develops a semantic argument for presentism, the austere version of the A-theory according to which nothing but the present exists. He claims that neither physical theory nor a priori [... more]
$50.00
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Computational Lexical Semantics (Studies in Natural ...
Book Description: Lexical semantics has become a major research area within computational linguistics, drawing from psycholinguistics, knowledge representation, and computer algorithms and architecture. Research programs whose goal is the definition of [... more]
$80.00
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Compositionality in Formal Semantics: Selected Papers by ...
Book Description: Barbara H. Partee has played a central role in developing the now-flourishing field of formal semantics, bringing the formal semantic approach developed by logicians together with a linguistically sophisticated account of the syntax of [... more]
$62.95
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What is Meaning: Fundamentals of Formal Semantics
Book Description: What is Meaning? is a concise introduction to the field of semantics as it is actually practiced. The book explains the fundamental ideas and some of the most significant results of modern semantic theory in an intuitive, engaging [... more]
$35.95
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Insensitive Semantics: A Defense of Semantic Minimalism ...
Book Description: From the end of the nineteenth century until today, philosophy of language has been plagued by an extensive and notoriously confusing literature on how to draw the distinction between semantic and non-semantic content. This debate, at [... more]
$33.95
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