Natural Language Production in Database Semantics

A computational model of natural language communication - interpretation, inference, and production in database semantics

Why Is Deduction Required for Database Systems ? - Some Case Studies

By combining the advantages of logic programming and relational database algebra, deductive databases provide important extensions relevant to the efficient solution of many practical problems. In this paper we present three successful case studies: a CASE tool for security semantics, a production planning and control system, and a natural language interface.

Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and ‎Intercultural Communication: Ethnopragmatics and Semantic ‎Analysis, Lauren Sadow, Bet Peeters & Kerry Mullan (Eds.) ‎‎(2019), Springer, ISBN 978-981-32-9982-5‎

Database semantics for natural language

This paper presents a formal ‘fragment’ of database semantics as a declarative model of a cognitive agent. It is called a SLIM machine and functionally integrates the procedures of natural language interpretation, conceptualization, and production as well as query and inference. Each of these functions is illustrated explicitly by a corresponding LA-grammar. In addition, a control structure bas...

A Theory of Signs for Database Semantics

The goal of this paper is to build a bridge from a certain intuitive conception of natural language communication, called the SLIM theory of language, to a technical approach, called database semantics (cf. Hausser 1999/2001). The intuitive approach proceeds from the interfaces of a cognitive agent’s recognition and action, the levels of language and context, the nature of concepts, and the rec...