A Computational Inquiry on Binding Theory : Semantics and Anaphora Resolution

ISBN-13: 9783639121063 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 180 str.

Roberto Bonato

Opis

Pronouns play a decisive role in every naturallanguage as the linguistic elements that enablesemantic cohesion in a text. Therefore, anaphoraresolution (i.e. the task of computing the semanticcontent of pronouns) is both an important theoreticalissue and a major technological challengefor any software application that aims at afine-grained semantic analysis of natural languagetexts. Binding Theory is the branch of generativelinguistics devoted to discovering the principlesthat rule the distribution and interpretation ofpronouns in a sentence. In this book we combineinsights issued from the most recent findings ofBinding Theory into an original computationalframework for anaphora resolution. Computer scientists interested in Linguistics appliedto Natural Language Processingwill benefit from the synthetic presentation of basicconcepts of modern Computational Semantics andBinding Theory, as well as any linguist interested inexploring the computational implications of BindingTheory.

O autorze

Roberto Bonato, Ph.D.: Studied Computer Science at University of
Verona and Computational Linguistics at University of Bordeaux.
IT consultant for YYE Software (Atlanta, USA) and Deep Blue
s.r.l. (Rome, Italy). Research Fellow at University of Verona.