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Title: Chung-chieh Shan
Title: Chung-chieh Shan


Research Question: How can we create a variable-free treatment of dynamic semantics?
Main Research Question: How can delimited continuations, a concept from programming languages, be used to analyze natural language phenomena like quantification and polarity sensitivity?


Methodology: The author proposes a variable-free treatment of dynamic semantics. This involves denoting sets of what they traditionally denote in Montague grammar, and assigning types to noun phrases. Nondeterminism is added to any Montague grammar by replacing each semantic type with a transformed type.
Methodology: The author proposes using a logical meta-language with syntax that includes control operators and semantics that involve evaluation order. This allows for the expression of analyses in a direct style, rather than using continuation-passing style.


Results: The new theory presented here achieves a compositional treatment of dynamic anaphora that does not involve assignment functions, and separates the combinatorics of variable-free semantics from the particular linguistic phenomena it treats. It also makes new empirical predictions, such as the "donkey puzzle" effect.
Results: The author demonstrates how delimited continuations can be used to analyze natural language phenomena such as quantification and polarity sensitivity. They provide examples and explanations to illustrate how these concepts can be applied.


Implications: The integration of variable-free semantics and dynamic semantics gives rise to interactions that make new empirical predictions. This could potentially lead to new insights into linguistic phenomena and the way we process and understand language.
Implications: This research suggests that delimited continuations, a concept from programming languages, can provide a new perspective on natural language semantics. It may lead to new insights and theories about how language works and how it can be processed and understood by computers.


Link to Article: https://arxiv.org/abs/0205027v1
Link to Article: https://arxiv.org/abs/0404006v1
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arXiv ID: 0205027v1
arXiv ID: 0404006v1
 
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Revision as of 15:40, 24 December 2023

Title: Chung-chieh Shan

Main Research Question: How can delimited continuations, a concept from programming languages, be used to analyze natural language phenomena like quantification and polarity sensitivity?

Methodology: The author proposes using a logical meta-language with syntax that includes control operators and semantics that involve evaluation order. This allows for the expression of analyses in a direct style, rather than using continuation-passing style.

Results: The author demonstrates how delimited continuations can be used to analyze natural language phenomena such as quantification and polarity sensitivity. They provide examples and explanations to illustrate how these concepts can be applied.

Implications: This research suggests that delimited continuations, a concept from programming languages, can provide a new perspective on natural language semantics. It may lead to new insights and theories about how language works and how it can be processed and understood by computers.

Link to Article: https://arxiv.org/abs/0404006v1 Authors: arXiv ID: 0404006v1

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