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Monads for natural language semantics

Computation and Language 2007-05-23 v1 Programming Languages

Abstract

Accounts of semantic phenomena often involve extending types of meanings and revising composition rules at the same time. The concept of monads allows many such accounts -- for intensionality, variable binding, quantification and focus -- to be stated uniformly and compositionally.

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@article{arxiv.cs/0205026,
  title  = {Monads for natural language semantics},
  author = {Chung-chieh Shan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0205026},
  year   = {2007}
}

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14 pages