Paired structures in logical and semiotic models of natural language

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  • J. Tinguaro Rodríguez
  • Camilo Franco
  • Javier Montero
  • Jie Lu
The evidence coming from cognitive psychology and linguistics shows that pairs of reference concepts (as e.g. good/bad, tall/short, nice/ugly, etc.) play a crucial role in the way we everyday use and understand natural languages in order to analyze reality and make decisions. Different situations and problems require different pairs of landmark concepts, since they provide the referential semantics in which the available information is understood accordingly to our goals in each context. In this way, a semantic valuation structure or system emerges from a pair of reference concepts and the way they oppose each other. Such structures allow representing the logic of new concepts according to the semantics of the references. We will refer to these semantic valuation structures as paired structures. Our point is that the semantic features of a paired structure could essentially depend on the semantic relationships holding between the pair of reference concepts from which the valuation structure emerges. Different relationships may enable the representation of different types of neutrality, understood here as an epistemic hesitation regarding the references. However, the standard approach to natural languages through logical models usually assumes that reference concepts are just each other complement. In this paper, we informally discuss more deeply about these issues, claiming in a positional manner that an adequate logical study and representation of the features and complexity of natural languages requires to consider more general semantic relationships between references.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformation Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems : 15th International Conference, IPMU 2014 Montpellier, France, July 15-19, 2014 Proceedings, Part II
EditorsAnne Laurent, Olivier Strauss, Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Ronald R. Yager
Number of pages10
PublisherSpringer
Publication date2014
Pages566-575
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-08854-9
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-08855-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
EventInternational Conference IPMU 2014 (Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems) - Montpellier, France
Duration: 15 Jul 201419 Jul 2014
Conference number: 15

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference IPMU 2014 (Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems)
Nummer15
LandFrance
ByMontpellier
Periode15/07/201419/07/2014
SeriesCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Number443
ISSN1865-0929

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