Rohan McLeod <rhn@jeack.com.au> wrote:
I would be interested to hear about the thesis of your Ph D; and your ideas concerning the above problems
My research is concerned with basic questions about how to construct a semantic theory of any given language. There are foundational disagreements in this area concerning the limits of semantic analysis, which I seek to address by investigating Robert Brandom's "inferentialist" theory of meaning. I think modern formal logic and philosophy have made real progress in analyzing and specifying the semantics of natural language. Some of this insight has been applied to computational problems, but there is much progress remaining to be made on both the theoretical side and in computational applications. Search engines use statistical techniques rather than logic-based semantics to process queries.