A great deal of attention has been devoted in the past ten years in the lingu- tic and computational linguistics communities to the syntax and the semantics of nouns, verbs and also, but to a lesser extent, to adjectives. Related p- nomena such as quanti?cation or tense and aspect have motivated a number of in-depth studies and projects. In contrast, prepositions have received less attention. The reasons are quite clear: prepositions are highly polysemic, p- sibly more so than adjectives, and linguistic realizations are extremely dif?cult to predict, not to mention the dif?culty of...
A great deal of attention has been devoted in the past ten years in the lingu- tic and computational linguistics communities to the syntax and the sem...
This volume contains a collection of contributions to the science of language, focusing on the study of word length in particular. Within a synergetic framework, the word turns out to be a central linguistic unit, as is clearly outlined in the Editor s preface. The book s first chapter is an extensive introduction to the history and state of the art of word length studies.
The studies included unify contributions from three important linguistic fields, namely, linguistics and text analysis, mathematics and statistics, and corpus and data base design, which together give a...
This volume contains a collection of contributions to the science of language, focusing on the study of word length in particular. Within a synerge...
This volume contains a collection of contributions to the science of language, focusing on the study of word length in particular. Within a synergetic framework, the word turns out to be a central linguistic unit, as is clearly outlined in the Editor s preface. The book s first chapter is an extensive introduction to the history and state of the art of word length studies.
The studies included unify contributions from three important linguistic fields, namely, linguistics and text analysis, mathematics and statistics, and corpus and data base design, which together give a...
This volume contains a collection of contributions to the science of language, focusing on the study of word length in particular. Within a synerge...
This new Springer volume provides a comprehensive and detailed look at current approaches to automated question answering. The level of presentation is suitable for newcomers to the field as well as for professionals wishing to study this area and/or to build practical QA systems. The book can serve as a "how-to" handbook for IT practitioners and system developers. It can also be used to teach graduate courses in Computer Science, Information Science and related disciplines.
This new Springer volume provides a comprehensive and detailed look at current approaches to automated question answering. The level of presentatio...
Graeme Hirst University of Toronto Of the many kinds of ambiguity in language, the two that have received the most attention in computational linguistics are those of word senses and those of syntactic structure, and the reasons for this are clear: these ambiguities are overt, their resolution is seemingly essential for any prac- cal application, and they seem to require a wide variety of methods and knowledge-sources with no pattern apparent in what any particular - stance requires. Right at the birth of artificial intelligence, in his 1950 paper Computing machinery and intelligence, Alan...
Graeme Hirst University of Toronto Of the many kinds of ambiguity in language, the two that have received the most attention in computational linguist...
This book celebrates the work of Yorick Wilks in the form of a selection of his papers which are intended to reflect the range and depth of his work. The volume accompanies a Festschrift which celebrates his contribution to the fields of Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence. The selected papers reflect Yorick s contribution to both practical and theoretical aspects of automatic language processing.
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This book celebrates the work of Yorick Wilks in the form of a selection of his papers which are intended to reflect the range and depth of his wor...
In its nine chapters, this book provides an overview of the state-of-the-art and best practice in several sub-fields of evaluation of text and speech systems and components. The evaluation aspects covered include speech and speaker recognition, speech synthesis, animated talking agents, part-of-speech tagging, parsing, and natural language software like machine translation, information retrieval, question answering, spoken dialogue systems, data resources, and annotation schemes. With its broad coverage and original contributions this book is unique in the field of evaluation of speech and...
In its nine chapters, this book provides an overview of the state-of-the-art and best practice in several sub-fields of evaluation of text and spee...
It has been said of the brothers Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt that between them they were the last people to have known all that there was to know, to have had a mastery of the best that contemporary science knew and to have made significant contributions, to be that rare thing Renaissance men. In a world of ever-greater specialisation, especially in academia, the ability to cross intellectual boundaries, bring together ideas beyond the confines of one s narrow discipline and yet make significant intellectual contributions has become ever rarer. In bringing together this celebration of...
It has been said of the brothers Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt that between them they were the last people to have known all that there was to kn...
Yorick Wilks is a central figure in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. This set consists of a volume of selected papers and a volume with contributions from his peers.
The first book offers a selection of papers by Yorick Wilks, which are intended to reflect the range and depth of his work. The papers include early work carried out at Cambridge University, descriptions of groundbreaking work on Machine Translation and Preference Semantics as well as more recent works on belief modeling and computational semantics. The selected papers reflect Yorick s...
Yorick Wilks is a central figure in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. This set consists of a volume of selecte...
This is the first comprehensive overview of computational approaches to Arabic morphology. The subtitle aims to reflect that widely different computational approaches to the Arabic morphological system have been proposed. The book provides a showcase of the most advanced language technologies applied to one of the most vexing problems in linguistics. It covers knowledge-based and empirical-based approaches.
This is the first comprehensive overview of computational approaches to Arabic morphology. The subtitle aims to reflect that widely different compu...
