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Abstract | ||
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Pragmatics plays an important role in correctly understanding sentences. Much useful information will be lost if the context in which a sentence is asserted is ignored. There are some approaches in logic to pragmatics, such as situation theories and context logics. Although these methods associate a sentence with a context or a situation, they consider only the truth value of the sentence. However, a sentence should have more meanings than its truth value, and people care more about what a sentence conveys. For the affection of contexts, the meaning of a sentence is not always its semantic meaning and a sentence may have different pragmatical implications in different contexts. In this paper, a context is considered as some structure in the real world. A sentence from some logical language is conceptualized as a concept, whose intent is a set of sentences implied semantically by the sentence, and whose extent is a set of contexts in which the sentence describes a part of the contexts. In terms of tools and theories of concepts, a strictly defined theory is given to study the pragmatics of sentences in contexts in information systems, which cannot be derived from the sentences by using logical reasoning methods. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2005 | 10.1007/s11390-005-0338-0 | Journal of Computer Science and Technology |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
concept,information system,logical implication | Information system,Logical reasoning,Logical consequence,Logical connective,Pragmatics,Computer science,Atomic sentence,Truth value,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Sentence | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
20 | 3 | 1860-4749 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 3 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| yu sun | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Yuefei Sui | 2 | 266 | 41.52 |
| Youming Xia | 3 | 6 | 1.89 |