Not Exactly读书介绍
| 类别 | 页数 | 译者 | 网友评分 | 年代 | 出版社 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 书籍 | 368页 | 2010 | Oxford University Press, USA |
| 定价 | 出版日期 | 最近访问 | 访问指数 |
|---|---|---|---|
| USD 29.95 | 2010-03-01 … | 2022-06-20 … | 20 |
Not everything is black and white. Our daily lives are full of vagueness or fuzziness. Language is the most obvious example - for instance, when we describe someone as tall, it is as though there is a particular height beyond which a person can be considered 'tall'. Likewise the terms 'blond' or 'overweight' in common usage. We often think in discontinuous categories when we are considering something continuous. In this book, van Deemter cuts across various disciplines in considering the nature and importance of vagueness. He looks at the principles of measurement, and how we choose categories; the vagueness lurking behind what seems at first sight crisp concepts such as that of the biological 'species'; uncertainties in grammar and the impact of vagueness on the programmes of Chomsky and Montague; vagueness and mathematical logic; computers, vague descriptions, and Natural Language Generation in AI (a new class of programs will allow computers to handle descriptions such as 'the man in the yellow shirt'). Van Deemter shows why vagueness is in various circumstances both unavoidable and useful, and how we are increasingly able to handle fuzziness in mathematical logic and computer science.
作者简介基斯·范迪姆特（Kees van Deemter），就职于阿伯丁大学计算机科学系，从事计算语言学研究——“人工智能和认知科学在计算机科学领域的一部分”，发表有超过一百篇论文，对从计算机科学引发的逻辑和哲学问题有着强烈的兴趣。
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