POLISH LINGUISTICS IN POLAND AND ABROAD IN THE AGE OF LOGICO-COMPUTATIONAL PHILOSOPHY (Lingwistyka na polonistyce krajowej i zagranicznej w dobie filozofii informatyczno-logicznej)

• Authors: Wlodarczyk Helene
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The phrase 'logico-computational philosophy' was coined by Witold Marciszewski to deal with problems which could be characterised as a modern Renaissance observed in the domain of science since the emergence of cybernetics and computer science. This renaissance was made possible by the use of universal programming languages in different areas of science. The authoress claims that thanks to the Polish logico-mathematical heritage (stemming from the Warsaw-Lwow School of Logic and Philosophy at the beginning of the 20th century) there is a chance that Polish linguistics might be present in this new age of science on the condition that it adopt the computational paradigm as developed within the realm of artificial intelligence. Investigations on the Polish language at CELTA Sorbonne (Centre de Linguistique theorique et appliqué) are conducted in the framework of what we call the CASK (Computer Aided Acquisition of Semantic Knowledge) method supported by the SEMANA software which includes a dynamic database builder and a bundle of algorithms for knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) specifically selected for semantic analysis. This paper sketches out the results of research conducted on Polish adjective declension, subject-verb agreement (choice of past tense verb forms -li or -ly) and impersonal sentences, thereby giving evidence of the need to distinguish in Polish grammar, the category of ender form the three-valued category of animacy (non animate, human animate and non-human animate). The approach revealed that the grammatical category of Polish gender has only 3 values (masculine, feminine and neuter) instead of 5, 7, 8 or even 9 values (which, in fact, correspond do declension classes) of a hybrid gender-like category as proposed by today's grammarians of Polish. Thus, the CASK method makes it possible to describe the Polish grammar using common European linguistic technology.

Keywords

EN

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY OF LINGUISTICS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Journal: LingVaria : Półrocznik Wydziału Polonistyki UJ poświęcony zagadnieniom języka i językoznawstwa
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 1(7)
• Pages: 65-79
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Wlodarczyk Helene

• Helene Wlodarczyk, Universite de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA065217