As an introduction, I want to contrast two general traditions in semantics, one realistic and one cognitive. According to the realistic approach to semantics the meaning of an expression is something out there in the world. In technical terms, a semantics for a language is defined as a mapping from the syntactic structures to things in the world (or in several possible worlds). Often meanings a...

In this paper, we investigated the fuzzy statistics analysis in lexical semantics and apply the fuzzy logic to compute some uncertain and ambiguous problems. The fuzzy propositional computation for the cognitive semantics can account for the degree of typicality and similarity. Which provide a more precise expression in human thought and human cognition. Some essential definitions for fuzzy sta...

Imperatives occur ubiquitously in natural languages. They produce forces which change the addressee’s cognitive state and regulate her actions accordingly. In real life we often receive conflicting orders, typically, issued by various authorities with different ranks. A new update semantics is proposed in this paper to formalize this idea. The general properties of this semantics, as well as it...

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This paper outlines the linguistic semantic commitments underlying an application which automatically constructs depictions of verbal spatial descriptions. Our approach draws on the ideational view of linguistic semantics developed by Ronald Langacker in his theory of Cognitive Grammar, and the conceptual representation of physical objects from the two-level semantics of Bierwisch and Lang. In ...

The dominant interpretation of game theory implicitly adheres to a realist semantics: roughly speaking, a game is interpreted in relation to a set of states of the world, and it is supposed to provide a full state description. Nevertheless, a persistent and in uential stream of research has nurtured a di erent perspective, which might be labeled as cognitive semantics for games the meaning of a...

This paper summarizes concepts, principles, and tools that were found useful in applications involving causal modeling. The principles are based on structural-model semantics, in which functional (or counterfactual) relationships, representing autonomous physical processes are the fundamental building blocks. The paper presents the formal basis of this semantics, illustrates its application in ...

The article represents the outlook of modern methods psycholinguistic analysis dialogue semantics, semantic vector being most prospective in discourse linguistics. experimental psycholinguistics are rather new, and our research is an attempt to apply them study suggest some new methods. Psycholinguistic reveals numerous interdisciplinary links interpreting human speech behavior: with cognitive ...