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Semantic Interpretation and the Resolution of Ambiguity
Av Graeme Hirst, Branimir Boguraev
Häftad, 1992
720 kr
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Semantic interpretation and the resolution of ambiguity presents an important advance in computer understanding of natural language. While parsing techniques have been greatly improved in recent years, the approach to semantics has generally improved in recent years, the approach to semantics has …
Natural Language Parsing
Psychological, Computational, and Theoretical Perspectives
Av David R. Dowty, Lauri Karttunen m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
1005 kr
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This is a collection of new papers by leading researchers on natural language parsing. In the past, the problem of how people parse the sentences they hear - determine the identity of the words in these sentences and group these words into larger units - has been addressed in very different ways by …
Computational Lexical Semantics
Av Patrick Saint-Dizier, Evelyn Viegas
Häftad, 2005
938 kr
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Lexical semantics has become a major research area within computational linguistics, drawing from psycholinguistics, knowledge representation, computer algorithms and architecture. Research programmes whose goal is the definition of large lexicons are asking what the appropriate representation …
Semantic Processing for Finite Domains
Av Martha Stone Palmer, Branimir Boguraev
Häftad, 2006
720 kr
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A primary problem in the area of natural language processing has been that of semantic analysis. This book aims to look at the semantics of natural languages in context. It presents an approach to the computational processing of English text that combines current theories of knowledge …
Building Natural Language Generation Systems
Av Ehud Reiter, Robert Dale m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
1005 kr
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This book explains how to build Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems - computer software systems which use techniques from artificial intelligence and computational linguistics to automatically generate understandable texts in English or other human languages, either in isolation or as part of …
Inheritance, Defaults and the Lexicon
Av Ted Briscoe, Ann Copestake m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
754 kr
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The lexicon is now a major focus of research in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP), as more linguistic theories concentrate on the lexicon and as the acquisition of an adequate vocabulary has become the chief bottleneck in developing practical NLP systems. This …
Challenges in Natural Language Processing
Av Madeleine Bates, Ralph M. Weischedel
Häftad, 2006
569 kr
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Although natural language processing has come far, the technology has not achieved a major impact on society. Is this because of some fundamental limitation that cannot be overcome? Or because there has not been enough time to refine and apply theoretical work already done? Editors Madeleine Bates …
A Computational Theory of Writing Systems
Av Richard Sproat, Steven Bird m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
838 kr
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This book develops a formal computational theory of writing systems. It offers specific proposals about the linguistic objects that are represented by orthographic elements; what levels of linguistic representation are involved and how they may differ across writing systems; and what formal …
The Spoken Language Translator
Av Manny Rayner, Manny Rayner m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
804 kr
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This book presents a detailed description of Spoken Language Translator (SLT), one of the first major projects in the area of automatic speech translation. The SLT system can translate between English, French, and Swedish in the domain of air travel planning, using a vocabulary of about 1500 words, …
Systemic Text Generation as Problem Solving
Av Terry Patten
Häftad, 2007
656 kr
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This study explores an approach to text generation that interprets systemic grammar as a computational representation. Terry Patten demonstrates that systemic grammar can be easily and automatically translated into current AI knowledge representations and efficiently processed by the same …
The Language of Word Meaning
Av Federica Busa, Pierrette Bouillon
Häftad, 2008
838 kr
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This volume is a collection of original contributions from outstanding scholars in linguistics, philosophy and computational linguistics exploring the relation between word meaning and human linguistic creativity. The papers present different aspects surrounding the question of what is word …
Memory and Context for Language Interpretation
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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This book presents computational mechanisms for solving common language interpretation problems including many cases of reference resolution, word sense disambiguation, and the interpretation of relationships implicit in modifiers. The proposed memory and context mechanisms provide the means for …
Relational Models of the Lexicon
Representing Knowledge in Semantic Networks
Häftad, 2009
672 kr
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With the first publication of this book in 1988, the centrality of the lexicon in language research was becoming increasingly apparent and the use of relational models of the lexicon had been the particular focus of research in a variety of disciplines since the early 1980s. This convergence of …
Language and Spatial Cognition
An Interdisciplinary Study of the Prepositions in English
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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This book provides a precise and thorough description of the meaning and use of spatial expressions, using both a linguistics and an artificial intelligence perspective, and also an enlightening discussion of computer models of comprehension and production in the spatial domain. The author proposes …
Memory-Based Language Processing
Av Walter Daelemans, Antal van den Bosch
Häftad, 2009
687 kr
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Memory-based language processing - a machine learning and problem solving method for language technology - is based on the idea that the direct reuse of examples using analogical reasoning is more suited for solving language processing problems than the application of rules extracted from those …
Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology
Av Ronald Cole, Joseph Mariani m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
754 kr
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Originally published in 1997, this book is concerned with human language technology. This technology provides computers with the capability to handle spoken and written language. One major goal is to improve communication between humans and machines. If people can use their own language to access …
Language, Cohesion and Form
Av Margaret Masterman, Yorick Wilks
Häftad, 2010
586 kr
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Margaret Masterman was a pioneer in the field of computational linguistics. Working in the earliest days of language processing by computer, she believed that meaning, not grammar, was the key to understanding languages, and that machines could determine the meaning of sentences. She was able, even …
Focus
Linguistic, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives
Av Peter Bosch, Rob van der Sandt
Häftad, 2011
721 kr
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This book presents a collection of papers on the issue of focus in its broadest sense. While commonly being considered as related to phenomena such as presupposition and anaphora, focusing is much more widely spread, and it is this pervasiveness that this collection addresses. The volume explicitly …
Computational Linguistics
An Introduction
Häftad, 1986
804 kr
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In spite of the rapid growth of interest in the computer analysis of language, this book provides an integrated introduction to the field. Inevitably, when many different approaches are still being considered, a straightforward work of synthesis would be neither possible nor practicable. …
Systemic Text Generation as Problem Solving
Av Terry Patten
Inbunden, 1988
2029 kr
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This study explores an approach to text generation that interprets systemic grammar as a computational representation. Terry Patten demonstrates that systemic grammar can be easily and automatically translated into current AI knowledge representations and efficiently processed by the same …
Semantic Processing for Finite Domains
Inbunden, 1990
1828 kr
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A primary problem in the area of natural language processing has been that of semantic analysis. This book aims to look at the semantics of natural languages in context. It presents an approach to the computational processing of English text that combines current theories of knowledge …
Reference and Computation
An Essay in Applied Philosophy of Language
Häftad, 1990
670 kr
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This book deals with a major problem in the study of language: the problem of reference. The ease with which we refer to things in conversation is deceptive. Upon closer scrutiny, it turns out that we hardly ever tell each other explicitly what object we mean, although we expect our interlocutor to …
Challenges in Natural Language Processing
Av Madeleine Bates, Ralph M. Weischedel
Inbunden, 1993
1693 kr
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Although natural language processing has come far, the technology has not achieved a major impact on society. Is this because of some fundamental limitation that cannot be overcome? Or because there has not been enough time to refine and apply theoretical work already done? Editors Madeleine Bates …
Computational Linguistics and Formal Semantics
Av Michael Rosner, Roderick Johnson
Inbunden, 1992
1761 kr
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This 1992 collection takes the exciting step of examining natural language phenomena from the perspective of both computational linguistics and formal semantics. Computational linguistics has until now been primarily concerned with the construction of computational models for handling the …
Computational Linguistics and Formal Semantics
Av Michael Rosner, Roderick Johnson
Häftad, 1992
670 kr
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This 1992 collection takes the exciting step of examining natural language phenomena from the perspective of both computational linguistics and formal semantics. Computational linguistics has until now been primarily concerned with the construction of computational models for handling the …
Inheritance, Defaults and the Lexicon
Av Ted Briscoe, Ann Copestake m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
1777 kr
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The lexicon is now a major focus of research in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP), as more linguistic theories concentrate on the lexicon and as the acquisition of an adequate vocabulary has become the chief bottleneck in developing practical NLP systems. This …
Text Generation
Av Kathleen McKeown, Branimir Boguraev m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
821 kr
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This book is concerned with the machine-based generation of natural language text and presents a formal analysis of problems, which in the main have previously only been approached descriptively. In the process of producing discourse, speakers and writers must decide what it is that they want to …
Planning English Sentences
Av Douglas E. Appelt, Branimir Boguraev
Häftad, 1992
670 kr
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This book is an investigation into the problems of generating natural language utterances to satisfy specific goals the speaker has in mind. It is thus an ambitious and significant contribution to research on language generation in artificial intelligence, which has previously concentrated in the …
Computational Lexical Semantics
Av Patrick Saint-Dizier, Evelyn Viegas
Inbunden, 1995
2163 kr
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Lexical semantics has become a major research area within computational linguistics, drawing from psycholinguistics, knowledge representation, computer algorithms and architecture. Research programmes whose goal is the definition of large lexicons are asking what the appropriate representation …
Language, Cohesion and Form
Av Margaret Masterman, Yorick Wilks
Inbunden, 2005
1777 kr
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Margaret Masterman was a pioneer in the field of computational linguistics. Working in the earliest days of language processing by computer, she believed that meaning, not grammar, was the key to understanding languages, and that machines could determine the meaning of sentences. She was able, even …