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How to answer the question.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Piwek, Paul |
| Copyright Year | 1994 |
| Abstract | Several notions of answerhood are formalized using a proof system, i.e., a Pure Type System (PTS). Our starting point is a definition of answerhood which was proposed in the mid-eighties by Groenendijk and Stokhof (G&S). This definition rests on two concepts which, in the past fifteen years, have become central to the trade of formal semantics: context change and contextdependence. Our formalization is proposed as an alternative for G&S’s original formalization in possible-world semantics. We demonstrate that our approach is advantageous in four respects: (i) The approach fits into the general picture of natural language semantics as stated in Discourse Representation Theory. (ii) By using a PTS, we provide a formalization which can function as the basis of a computational model of answerhood. (iii) We provide a full formalization of indirect answerhood and isolate certain computationally interesting indirect answers. (iv) On the conceptual side, our approach is shown to clarify the relation between approaches to answerhood which take the context into account and the old conception of an answer as providing a filler for a gap (which was introduced by the question). |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1080/19443927.2012.665274 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://killexams.com/demo-download/CMAA.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/REMA/article/download/REMA9393220263A/16966 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www-test.itri.brighton.ac.uk/~Paul.Piwek/ppq.ps.gz |
| PubMed reference number | 19790859 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2012.665274 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 65 |
| Journal | Occasional paper |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
