
CHAPTER 7
Semantics and Query
Languages
7.1 Introduction
Providing information out of data has always been the major concern
in information science. Addressing and disseminating the acquired
information, however, has been the major focus of research activities
in query languages and question answering systems. Despite the
variety of approaches taken so far, two central questions can be raised
when we ask for information: how to ask for information and what
kind of queries the system can answer. Although the second question
has been exhaustively examined by theories and/or practical solutions
referring to model- or proof- theoretic semantics, closed ...