A Logic for Natural Language

By William C. Purdy. 1991

Subfields: Natural Language Processing

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In Natural Language Processing

1. Subhro Roy
2. Dan Roth
3. Tim Vieira
4. Jennifer Widom
5. Alon Y. Halevy
6. Yaroslav Fyodorov
7. YoadWinter NissimFrancez
8. J. Benthem

Citations in the corpus

• Reasoning about Quantities in Natural Language (2015, methodology): “We then use these capabilities to further develop algorithms to assist reasoning in the context of the aforementioned tasks.”
• A Natural Logic Inference System (2000, background): “Purdy (1991) proposes a sound and complete inference systemthat is based on operations withn-ary relations.”
• Working Models for Uncertain Data (2006, background): “In fact, some studies [28, 30] suggest that the use of variables is what makes it hard.”
• A brief history of natural logic (2008, background): “W. Purdy, 1991, ‘A Logic for Natural Language’, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 32:3, 409–425.”