On 5/7/08, Stephen Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To my knowledge there is a standard style but there is of course no standard > ontology. Roughly the standard style is First Order Predicate Calculus > (FOPC) and within the linguistics community this is called logical form. For > reference see James Allen's Natural Language Understanding, 2nd Edition, > Chapter 8 - Semantics and Logical Form. Also see Terence Parson's Events in > the Semantics of English, for a view that I have adopted with regard to the > semantics of verbs. > > As Texai is taught the principle English grammar constructions, I would be > glad to contribute the form <--> semantics pairings to the wiki-like place > you propose.
Thanks, I'll check out those books. The "Rus form" is also a popular logical form, have you heard of it? I think it is complete in the sense that all English (or NL) sentences can be represented in it, but the drawback is that it's somewhat indirect. YKY ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
