{"product_id":"ontology-of-communication-agent-based-data-driven-or-sign-based-substitution-driven-9783031227387","title":"Ontology of Communication: Agent-Based Data-Driven or Sign-Based Substitution-Driven?","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Roland Hausser\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book gives a comprehensive discussion of Database Semantics (DBS) as an agent-based data-driven theory of how natural language communication essentially works. In language communication, agents switch between \u003ci\u003espeak mode\u003c\/i\u003e, driven by cognition-internal content (input) resulting in cognition-external raw data (e.g. sound waves or pixels, which have no meaning or grammatical properties but can be measured by natural science), and \u003ci\u003ehear mode\u003c\/i\u003e, driven by the raw data produced by the speaker resulting in cognition-internal content.\u003cbr\u003eThe motivation is to compare two approaches for an ontology of communication: agent-based data-driven vs. sign-based substitution-driven. \u003ci\u003eA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003egent-based\u003c\/i\u003e means: design of a cognitive agent with (i) an interface component for converting raw data into cognitive content (recognition) and converting cognitive content into raw data (action), (ii) an on-board, content-addressable memory (database) for the storage and content retrieval, (iii) separate treatments of the speak and the hear mode. \u003ci\u003eData-driven\u003c\/i\u003e means: (a) mapping a cognitive content as input to the speak-mode into a language-dependent surface as output, (b) mapping a surface as input to the hear-mode into a cognitive content as output. Oppositely, \u003ci\u003es\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eign\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e-\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ebased\u003c\/i\u003e means: no distinction between speak and hear mode, whereas \u003ci\u003esubstitution-driven\u003c\/i\u003e means: using a single start symbol as input for generating infinitely many outputs, based on substitutions by rewrite rules.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCollecting recent research of the author, this beautiful, novel and original exposition begins with an introduction to DBS, makes a linguistic detour on subject\/predicate gapping and slot-filler repetition, and moves on to discuss computational pragmatics, inference and cognition, grammatical disambiguation and other related topics. The book is mostly addressed to experts working in the field of computational linguistics, as well as to enthusiasts interested in the history and early development of this subject, starting with the pre-computational foundations of theoretical computer science and symbolic logic in the 30s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45278014832791,"sku":"9783031227387","price":11627.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783031227387.webp?v=1769289822","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/ontology-of-communication-agent-based-data-driven-or-sign-based-substitution-driven-9783031227387","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}