U.S.-Netherland Cooperative Research in Linquistics: Polyadic Quantification and Reciprocals

美国-荷兰语言学合作研究：多元量化和倒数

• 批准号: 9513647
• 负责人: Stanley Peters
• 金额: $ 1.64万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-04-01 至 2000-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9513647&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; Netherland; Cooperative; Research; Linquistics

This award supports Professor Stanley Peters and three junior members of his research group at Stanford University to collaborate in linguistics research with Professor Frank Veltman and others of the Institute for Language, Logic and Computation of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. They are studying abstract aspects of information content and informational equivalence, centering on the concept of `reciprocals` (the expertise of the US group) and `polyadic quantifiers` the logical tools used to define reciprocals (which is the area of expertise of the Dutch group.) The Stanford group has undertaken a comparative study of the nature of the relation between syntactic representation and semantic interpretation, taking reciprocals as a case study. The Dutch group is part of a European consortium applying new understanding of the dynamic nature of information to the interpretation of natural language. Dynamic interpretation is becoming increasingly important, not only in linguistics, but also in computer science and artificial intelligence. This research provides US participants access to a larger regional European collaborative project named DYANA (`Dynamic Interpretation of Natural Language`) funded by the European Commission, which brings together some of the most important scholars in the foundations of language and information processing in Europe. This relatively focused U.S.-Dutch research collaboration is intended to be the starting point for a broader and longer-term collaboration in the future. Their mutual goal is to develop theories of information that can be applied in a variety of areas within the study of language and computation. The results of their research are likely to have far reaching implications, not only for the study of natural languages, but also for the analysis and design of computer languages.

该奖项支持Stanley Peters教授及其斯坦福大学研究小组的三名年轻成员与荷兰阿姆斯特丹大学语言、逻辑和计算研究所的Frank Veltman教授和其他人在语言学研究方面进行合作。他们正在研究信息内容和信息等价的抽象方面，以“往复式”（美国小组的专业知识）和“多元量词”（用于定义往复式的逻辑工具）为中心（这是荷兰小组的专业知识领域）。斯坦福大学的研究小组对句法表示和语义解释之间关系的本质进行了比较研究，并以相互关系为例进行了研究。这个荷兰小组是一个欧洲联盟的成员，该联盟将对信息动态本质的新理解应用于自然语言的解释。动态解释变得越来越重要，不仅在语言学，而且在计算机科学和人工智能。这项研究为美国参与者提供了一个更大的欧洲区域合作项目，名为DYANA（“自然语言的动态解释”），该项目由欧盟委员会资助，汇集了欧洲语言和信息处理基础领域一些最重要的学者。这种相对集中的美荷研究合作旨在成为未来更广泛、更长期合作的起点。他们的共同目标是发展信息理论，这些理论可以应用于语言和计算研究的各个领域。他们的研究结果不仅对自然语言的研究，而且对计算机语言的分析和设计都可能产生深远的影响。