Open AccessRecent Progress on Monotonicity
Author(s) -
Thomas Icard,
Lawrence S. Moss
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
linguistic issues in language technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-3590
pISSN - 1945-3604
DOI - 10.33011/lilt.v9i.1325
Subject(s) - monotonic function , psycholinguistics , computer science , natural language , linguistics , mathematical economics , computational linguistics , calculus (dental) , theoretical computer science , cognitive science , natural language processing , mathematics , philosophy , psychology , cognition , medicine , mathematical analysis , dentistry , neuroscience
This paper serves two purposes. It is a summary of much work concerning formal treatments of monotonicity and polarity in natural language, and it also discusses connections to related work on exclusion relations, and connections to psycholinguistics and computational linguistics. The second part of the paper presents a summary of some new work on a formal Monotonicity Calculus.