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....integral part of our everyday experience. Some activities pertaining to language include talking, listening, reading, and writing. These activities are situated; they occur in situations and they are about situations [4] What is common to these situated activities is that they convey information [24, 27, 28, 35]. When uttered at different times by different speakers, a statement can convey different information to a hearer and hence can have different meanings. Consider the sentence That really attracts me. Depending on the reference of the demonstrative, interpretation (and hence meaning) would ....

....i.e. they describe the same situation, they can carry different information. Classical approaches to semantics underestimate the role played by context dependence; they ignore pragmatic factors such as intentions and circumstances of the individuals involved in the communicative process [4, 34, 35]. But, indexicals, demonstratives, tenses, and other linguistic devices rely heavily on context for their interpretation and are fundamental to the way language conveys information [2] Contextdependence is an essential hypothesis of situation semantics; a given sentence can be used over and over ....

Z. S. Harris. A Theory of Language and Information: A Mathematical Approach, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1991.

....capture the invariant collocational relationships between words and so predict whether a word would be more or less probable in a particular position: a central problem for a theory of language is determining the departures from equiprobability in the successive parts of utterances. Harris [5] It also allows us a handle on the problem referred to above, that of deciding on an optimal representation for meaning, which is to be the output of the model. It should be the case that a felicitous improvement to this representation will allow better generalizations to be made and so the ....

....will generally play the major role in the formulation of transition rules. 5 Returning to our example sentence, we can calculate that the active stack at each state is as follows (with the top element of the stack leftmost) 6 He gave the dog a tasty bone today [ 1] 3,1] 4,3,1] 3,1] [5,3,1] [5,3,1] 3,1] 1] 2.2.2 Lexical entries In formulating the rules, a crucial resource is the lexical entry for the current word. These entries consist of a set of fsyntactic featuresg, including wordclass, and [semantic features] which will provide the content of the constituents formed. So for ....

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Harris Z. A theory of language and information: a mathematical approach. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991

....etc. which serve as an objective test for semantic distinctions important to a sublanguage [1617 ] When domain sentences are labeled with these semantic classes, they form a small number of semantic patterns, or formulae, which represent the essential information units of the domain [18 19]. As texts of a given domain are examined one by one and labeled in this manner, the number of new semantic types and formulae needed to account for sentence structure levels off rapidly [19 20] Sublanguage formulae have a nested structure, in which, e.g. the arguments and predicate of ....

.... of semantic patterns, or formulae, which represent the essential information units of the domain [18 19] As texts of a given domain are examined one by one and labeled in this manner, the number of new semantic types and formulae needed to account for sentence structure levels off rapidly [19 20]. Sublanguage formulae have a nested structure, in which, e.g. the arguments and predicate of a formula can take modifiers, which in turn may have modifiers [6,21] The sentences of domain texts can be analyzed by combining phrasal units based on semantic patterns, rather than ....

Harris Z. A Theory of Language and Information - A Mathematical Approach. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.

....be ruled out on identical grounds as equally remote from English. Yet (1) though nonsensical, is grammatical, while (2) is not. Before and after the split, Zellig Harris had advocated a close alliance between grammatical and information theoretic principles in the analysis of natural language (Harris, 1951, 1991). Early formal language theory provided another strong Article submitted to Royal Society T E XPaper 2 F. Pereira link between information theory and linguistics. Nevertheless, in most research on language and computation, those bridges were lost in an urge to take sides that was as much personal ....

Harris, Z. S. (1991). A theory of language and information: A mathematical approach. New York: Clarendon Press -- Oxford.

....is another. For the early pioneers in corpus linguistics, people like John Sinclair, Jan Svartvik, Sidney Greenbaum and Rodney Huddleston, scientific texts, their idiosyncrasies and analysis, were an important yet clearly delineated output of a linguistic community. For the structuralist Zellig Harris, the uniqueness and the frequency of noun phrases and other kindred grammatical structures in texts, comprising key terms of a scientific domain, are indicative of the structural basis. Terms are also often studied without explicit acknowledgement or reference to the terminological literature. ....

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Harris, Zellig (1991) A Theory of Language and Information: A Mathematical Approach. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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