{"product_id":"9781472576569","title":"Semantic Representation of Natural Language","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBloomsbury Studies in Theoretical Linguistics\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eSemantic Representation of Natural Language\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMichael Levison | Greg Lessard | Craig Thomas | Matthew Donald\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage Arts \u0026amp; Disciplines \/ Linguistics \/ Semantics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume contains a detailed, precise and clear semantic formalism designed to allow non-programmers such as linguists and literary specialists to represent elements of meaning which they must deal with in their research and teaching. At the same time, by its basis in a functional programming paradigm, it retains sufficient formal precision to support computational implementation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The formalism is designed to represent meaning as found at a variety of levels, including basic semantic units and relations, word meaning, sentence-level phenomena, and text-level meaning. By drawing on fundamental principles of program design, the proposed formalism is both easy to read and modify yet sufficiently powerful to allow for the representation of complex semantic phenomena.\u003cbr\u003eIn this monograph, the authors introduce the formalism and show its basic structure, apply it to the analysis of the semantics of a variety of linguistic phenomena in both English and French, and use it to represent the semantics of a variety of texts ranging from single sentences, to textual excepts, to a full story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Levison\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Computing at Queen's University,\u003cbr\u003eCanada.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGreg Lessard\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor in the Department of French Studies at Queen's University, Canada.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCraig Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e earned his PhD from the School of Computing at Queen's University, Canada, in\u003cbr\u003e2010 under the supervision of Michael Levison and Greg Lessard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Donald\u003c\/b\u003e earned his MSc from the School of Computing at Queen's University, Canada, in\u003cbr\u003e2006 under the direction of Michael Levison and Greg Lessard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e26 June 2014\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781472576569\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e352\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e13.28\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51197865820300,"sku":"9781472576569","price":47.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_045dded6-6ef9-479a-980a-43c245eb5292.jpg?v=1782962819","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781472576569","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}