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Patrick Blackburn

Roskilde University
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  • Roskilde University
    Filosofi og Videnskabsteori på Roskilde Universitet
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Areas of Specialization
Logic and Philosophy of Logic
Areas of Interest
Epistemology
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Computing and Information
General Philosophy of Science
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    Arthur Prior and Hybrid Logic
    Synthese 150 (3): 329-372. 2006.
    Contemporary hybrid logic is based on the idea of using formulas as terms, an idea invented and explored by Arthur Prior in the mid-1960s. But Prior’s own work on hybrid logic remains largely undiscussed. This is unfortunate, since hybridisation played a role that was both central to and problematic for his philosophical views on tense. In this paper I introduce hybrid logic from a contemporary perspective, and then examine the role it played in Prior’s work.
    Logic and Philosophy of LogicLogics
  • Special issue on combining logics, volume 37 (2) of
    with M. de Rijke
    Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic. forthcoming.
    Logic and Philosophy of LogicNonclassical Logics
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    Representation and inference for natural language: a first course in computational semantics
    Center for the Study of Language and Information. 2005.
    How can computers distinguish the coherent from the unintelligible, recognize new information in a sentence, or draw inferences from a natural language passage? Computational semantics is an exciting new field that seeks answers to these questions, and this volume is the first textbook wholly devoted to this growing subdiscipline. The book explains the underlying theoretical issues and fundamental techniques for computing semantic representations for fragments of natural language. This volume wi…Read more
    How can computers distinguish the coherent from the unintelligible, recognize new information in a sentence, or draw inferences from a natural language passage? Computational semantics is an exciting new field that seeks answers to these questions, and this volume is the first textbook wholly devoted to this growing subdiscipline. The book explains the underlying theoretical issues and fundamental techniques for computing semantic representations for fragments of natural language. This volume will be an essential text for computer scientists, linguists, and anyone interested in the development of computational semantics.
    Computational SemanticsSemantics
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    Introduction: Static and dynamic aspects of syntactic structure (review)
    Journal of Logic, Language and Information 4 (1): 1-4. 1995.
    Semantic Theories
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    Computational Semantics
    with Johan Bos
    Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 18 (1): 27-45. 2003.
    In this article we discuss what constitutes a good choice of semantic representation, compare different approaches of constructing semantic representations for fragments of natural language, and give an overview of recent methods for employing inference engines for natural language understanding tasks.
    Science, Logic, and MathematicsComputational Semantics
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    Special Issue on Hybrid Logics
    with Carlos Areces
    Journal of Applied Logic 8 (4): 303-304. 2010.
    Logic and Philosophy of LogicLogics
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    Upcoming Themes
    Journal of Logic, Language and Information 8 (2): 263-263. 1999.
    Science, Logic, and MathematicsPhilosophy of Cognitive Science
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