LINGUIST List 19.82
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Wed Jan 09 2008
Books: Cognitive Science: Câmara Pereira - Syntax/Semantics: Nakanishi
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1. Julia
Ulrich,
Creativity and Artificial Intelligence: Câmara Pereira
2. Julia
Ulrich,
Formal Properties of Measurement Constructions: Nakanishi
Message 1: Creativity and Artificial Intelligence: Câmara Pereira
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Date: 18-Dec-2007
From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com>
Subject: Creativity and Artificial Intelligence: Câmara Pereira
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Title: Creativity and Artificial Intelligence
Subtitle: A Conceptual Blending Approach
Series Title: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] 4
Published: 2007
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
http://www.mouton-publishers.com
Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sp/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110186093-1
Author: Francisco Câmara Pereira
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110186093 Pages: 254 Price: Europe EURO 98.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110186093 Pages: 254 Price: U.S. $ 132.30 Comment: for orders placed in North America
Abstract:
Creativity and Artificial Intelligence: A Conceptual Blending Approach
takes readers into a computationally plausible model of creativity.
Inspired by a thorough analysis of work on creativity from the areas of
philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, cognitive linguistics and
artificial intelligence, the author deals with the various processes,
principles and representations that lie underneath the act of creativity.
Focusing on Arthur Koestler's Bisociations, which eventually lead to Turner
and Fauconnier's conceptual blending framework, the book proposes a
theoretical model that considers blends and their emergent structure as a
fundamental cognitive mechanism. The author thus discusses the
computational implementation of several aspects of conceptual blending
theory, namely composition, completion, elaboration, frames and optimality
constraints. Informal descriptions and examples are supplied to provide
non-computer scientists as well as non-cognitive linguists with clear
insights into these ideas. Several experiments are made, and their results
are discussed, with particular emphasis on the validation of the creativity
and conceptual blending aspects.
Written by a researcher with a background in artificial intelligence, the
book is the result of several years of exploration and discussion from
different theoretical perspectives. As a result, the book echoes some of
the criticism made on conceptual blending and creativity in artificial
intelligence, and thus proposes improvements in both areas, with the aim of
being a constructive contribution to these very intriguing, yet appealing,
research orientations.
Keywords
Cognitive Linguistics; creativity
Readership
Applied Cognitive Linguists, Computer Scientists
Linguistic Field(s):
Cognitive Science
Written In: English (eng )
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Message 2: Formal Properties of Measurement Constructions: Nakanishi
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Date: 18-Dec-2007
From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com>
Subject: Formal Properties of Measurement Constructions: Nakanishi
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Title: Formal Properties of Measurement Constructions
Series Title: Interface Explorations [IE] 12
Published: 2007
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
http://www.mouton-publishers.com
Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sp/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110185980-1
Author: Kimiko Nakanishi
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110185980 Pages: 284 Price: Europe EURO 98.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110185980 Pages: 284 Price: U.S. $ 132.30 Comment: for orders placed in North America
Abstract:
This book investigates the semantics and syntax-semantics interface of
measurement constructions, such as (non-)split quantifiers and
comparatives. The cross-linguistic investigation reveals that seemingly
diverse constructions can be categorized into two classes depending on
whether they measure nominal or verbal predicates, and shows that the
classification accounts for why certain constructions have certain
characteristics concerning distributivity and single-event predicates.
Throughout the book, particular emphasis is placed on issues of
compositionality.
Keywords
Syntax; semantics; generative syntax; generative semantics
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Linguistic Field(s):
Semantics
Syntax
Written In: English (eng )
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