Computational Linguistics Books

Explores the complex nature of idiomaticity by bringing together a quantitative corpus-linguistic approach and judgement data. Adopting a usage-based perspective, this study addresses the question 'which factors do speakers rely upon when assessing the idiomaticity of a construction?'.

Will computers and robots ever think and communicate the way humans do? When a computer crosses the threshold into self-consciousness, will it immediately jump into the Internet and create a World Mind? This is an exploration of both the philosophical and methodological issues surrounding the search for true artificial intelligence.

This book offers the first comprehensive overview of the human language technology field.

Corpus linguistics is often regarded as a methodology in its own right. This book includes coverage of the lexical priming theory, parole-linguistics, a four-part model of language system and language use, and the concept of local textual functions. It illustrates the theoretical arguments.

This collection of contributions addresses the problem of words and their meaning.

In this first volume, foundations of computing with words related to linguistic aspects, fuzzy logic and approximate reasoning, granularity, calculations on verbal quantities, and general architectures for the implementation of computing with words are presented.

A highly respected introduction to the computer analysis of language.

This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing, introducing the corpus-based approach to the study of language.

A formal computational theory of writing systems relating to psycholinguistic results.

Logics of Conversation presents a logically precise theory of discourse interpretation.

This reader collects and introduces important work on the use of linguistic devices in natural languages to situate events in time: whether they are past, present, or future; whether they are real or hypothetical; when an event might have occurred, and how long it could have lasted.

This work examines current research in qualitative reasoning about space and time, focusing on representational and computational issues. It emphasizes major lines of development in this multifaceted area and shows some common ground of spatial and temporal aspects of qualitative reasoning.

This book presents a collection of papers on the issue of focus in its broadest sense, originating from a conference held in 1994 in Schloss Wolfsbrunnen in Germany.

This book addresses theoretical or applied work in the field of natural language processing.

Corpus linguistics uses large electronic databases of language to examine hypotheses about language use. These can be tested scientifically with computerised analytical tools, without the researcher's preconceptions influencing their conclusions. This title presents a survey of the ways in which corpus linguistics is used by researchers.

This book provides an in-depth view of the current issues, problems and approaches in the computation of meaning as expressed in language. Aimed at linguists, computer scientists, and logicians with an interest in the computation of meaning, this book focuses on two main topics in recent research in computational semantics. The first topic is the definition and use of underspecified semantic ...

Yorick Wilks is a central figure in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. His influence has extends to many areas of these fields and includes contributions to Machine Translation, word sense disambiguation, dialogue modeling and Information Extraction. This book celebrates the work of Yorick Wilks from the perspective of his peers. It consists of original ...

Explains how to build computer software systems which generate understandable texts in human languages.

Presents the scientific foundations of the architecture and components of an implemented system for text understanding and generation. This book discusses some of the possible applications in real world domains in which such an approach could be fruitful.