Linguists rarely employed formal semantics until Richard Montague showed how English ( or any natural language ) could be treated like a formal language.
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The formal semantics of languages such as KL-ONE gave these frame languages a new type of automated reasoning capability known as the classifier.
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*Partee, Barbara H . ( 2005 ) . " Report from the First FSIM Workshop : Formal Semantics in Moscow, April 2005 ".
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Apart from the choice between denotational, operational, or axiomatic approaches, most variation in formal semantic systems arises from the choice of supporting mathematical formalism.
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From philosophy, he widened his investigations to the formal semantics of natural language that required an expertise in linguistics as well as in modal and intensional logics.
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As such, he was a constant visitor at the Amsterdam Colloquia in formal semantics, and the European ESSLLI Summer Schools in Logic, Language and Information.
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With Prof . Martin Henson, he has studied the formal semantics of the Z notation in detail, in relation to the international ISO standard for Z.
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Groenendijk wrote a joint Ph . D . dissertation with Martin Stokhof on the formal semantics of questions, under the supervision of Renate Bartsch and Johan van Benthem.
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The distinctions between the three broad classes of approaches can sometimes be vague, but all known approaches to formal semantics use the above techniques, or some combination thereof.
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Evans was one of many in the UK who took up the project of developing formal semantics for natural languages, instigated by Donald Davidson in the 1960s and 1970s.
