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Vagueness in communication : international workshop, ViC 2009, held as part of ESSLLI 2009, Bordeaux, France, July 20-24, 2009 : revised selected papers / Rick Nouwen [and others] (eds.).

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Lecture notes in computer science ; 6517. | Lecture notes in computer science. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence. | LNCS sublibrary. SL 7, Artificial intelligence.Publication details: Berlin ; Heidelberg ; New York : Springer, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (206 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783642184468
  • 3642184464
Other title:
  • ViC 2009
  • ESSLLI 2009
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Vagueness in communication.DDC classification:
  • 005.101/5113 22
LOC classification:
  • QA76.9.L63 V34 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / Rick Nouwen [and others] -- On the psychology of truth-gaps / Sam Alxatib and Jeff Pelletier -- The rationality of round interpretation / Harald Bastiaanse -- Supervaluationism and classical logic / Pablo Cobreros -- Perceptual ambiguity and the / Paul Égré -- Context-dependence and the sorites / Graeme Forbes -- Temporal vagueness, coordination and communication / Ewan Klein and Michael Rovatsos -- Vagueness as probabilistic linguistic knowledge / Daniel Lassiter The relative role of property type and scale structure in explaining the behavior of gradable adjectives / Louise McNally contradictions at the / David Ripley -- Notes on the comparison class / Stephanie Solt.
Summary: This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Workshop on Vagueness in Communication, VIC 2009, held as part of ESSLLI 2009, in Bordeaux, France, July 20-24, 2009. The 11 contributions presented shed a light on new aspects in the area of vagueness in natural language communication. In contrast to the classical instruments of dealing with vagueness - like multi-valued logics, truth value gaps or gluts, or supervaluations - this volume presents new approaches like context-sensitivity of vagueness, the sharpening of vague predicates in context, and the modeling of precision levels.
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Workshop on Vagueness in Communication, VIC 2009, held as part of ESSLLI 2009, in Bordeaux, France, July 20-24, 2009. The 11 contributions presented shed a light on new aspects in the area of vagueness in natural language communication. In contrast to the classical instruments of dealing with vagueness - like multi-valued logics, truth value gaps or gluts, or supervaluations - this volume presents new approaches like context-sensitivity of vagueness, the sharpening of vague predicates in context, and the modeling of precision levels.

Introduction / Rick Nouwen [and others] -- On the psychology of truth-gaps / Sam Alxatib and Jeff Pelletier -- The rationality of round interpretation / Harald Bastiaanse -- Supervaluationism and classical logic / Pablo Cobreros -- Perceptual ambiguity and the / Paul Égré -- Context-dependence and the sorites / Graeme Forbes -- Temporal vagueness, coordination and communication / Ewan Klein and Michael Rovatsos -- Vagueness as probabilistic linguistic knowledge / Daniel Lassiter The relative role of property type and scale structure in explaining the behavior of gradable adjectives / Louise McNally contradictions at the / David Ripley -- Notes on the comparison class / Stephanie Solt.

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