The Core Language Engine
Author : Hiyan Alshawi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 30,6 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Computational linguistics
ISBN : 9780262011266
The Spoken Language Translator
Author : Manny Rayner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 16,60 MB
Release : 2000-08-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780521770774
Book Description
This book describes the Spoken Language Translator (SLT), one of the first major projects in the area of automatic speech translation.
The Language Complexity Game
Author : Eric Sven Ristad
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 35,60 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262181471
Book Description
This work elucidates the structure and complexity of human language in terms of the mathematics of information and computation. It strengthens Chomsky's early work on the mathematics of language, with the advantages of a better understanding of language and a more precise theory of structural complexity. Ristad argues that language is the process of constructing linguistic representations from the forms produced by other cognitive modules and that this process is NP-complete. This NP-completeness is defended with a phalanx of elegant and revealing proofs that rely only on the empirical facts of linguistic knowledge and on the uncontroverted assumption that these facts generalize in a reasonable manner. For this reason, these complexity results apply to all adequate linguistic theories and are the first to do so. Eric Sven Ristad is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He is the coauthor of Computational Complexity and Natural Language. Contents:Foundation of the Investigation. Anaphora. Ellipsis. Phonology. Syntactic Agreement and Lexical Ambiguity. Philosophical Issues.
New Developments in Parsing Technology
Author : H. Bunt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 2006-01-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1402022956
Book Description
Parsing can be defined as the decomposition of complex structures into their constituent parts, and parsing technology as the methods, the tools, and the software to parse automatically. Parsing is a central area of research in the automatic processing of human language. Parsers are being used in many application areas, for example question answering, extraction of information from text, speech recognition and understanding, and machine translation. New developments in parsing technology are thus widely applicable. This book contains contributions from many of today's leading researchers in the area of natural language parsing technology. The contributors describe their most recent work and a diverse range of techniques and results. This collection provides an excellent picture of the current state of affairs in this area. This volume is the third in a series of such collections, and its breadth of coverage should make it suitable both as an overview of the current state of the field for graduate students, and as a reference for established researchers.
New Methods In Language Processing
Author : D. B. Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 46,84 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1134227388
Book Description
Studies in Computational Linguistics presents authoritative texts from an international team of leading computational linguists. The books range from the senior undergraduate textbook to the research level monograph and provide a showcase for a broad range of recent developments in the field. The series should be interesting reading for researchers and students alike involved at this interface of linguistics and computing.
Computing Meaning
Author : Harry Bunt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 19,18 MB
Release : 2008-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1402059574
Book Description
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 representations, i.e. formal structures that represent part of the meaning of a linguistic object while leaving other parts unspecified. The second topic discussed is semantic annotation. Annotated corpora have become an indispensable resource both for linguists and for developers of language and speech technology, especially when used in combination with machine learning methods. The annotation in corpora has only marginally addressed semantic information, however, since semantic annotation methodologies are still in their infancy. This book discusses the development and application of such methodologies.
Handbook of Natural Language Processing
Author : Robert Dale
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 974 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 2000-07-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780824790004
Book Description
This study explores the design and application of natural language text-based processing systems, based on generative linguistics, empirical copus analysis, and artificial neural networks. It emphasizes the practical tools to accommodate the selected system.
Learning Language in Logic
Author : James Cussens
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,82 MB
Release : 2000-09-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540411453
Book Description
The two-volume set LNCS 1842/1843 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2000, held in Dublin, Ireland in June/July 2000. The 116 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from a total of 266 submissions. The two volumes offer topical sections on recognitions and modelling; stereoscopic vision; texture and shading; shape; structure from motion; image features; active, real-time, and robot vision; segmentation and grouping; vision systems engineering and evaluation; calibration; medical image understanding; and visual motion.
Japanese Sentence Processing
Author : Reiko Mazuka
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1134770219
Book Description
This volume is a direct result of the International Symposium on Japanese Sentence Processing held at Duke University. The symposium provided the first opportunity for researchers in three disciplinary areas from both Japan and the United States to participate in a conference where they could discuss issues concerning Japanese syntactic processing. The goals of the symposium were three-fold: * to illuminate the mechanisms of Japanese sentence processing from the viewpoints of linguistics, psycholinguistics and computer science; * to synthesize findings about the mechanisms of Japanese sentence processing by researchers in these three fields in Japan and the United States; * to lay foundations for future interdisciplinary research in Japanese sentence processing, as well as international collaborations between researchers in Japan and the United States. The chapters in this volume have been written from the points of view of three different disciplines, with various immediate objectives -- from building usable speech understanding systems to investigating the nature of competence grammars for natural languages. All of the papers share the long term goal of understanding the nature of human language processing mechanisms. The book is concerned with two central issues -- the universality of language processing mechanisms, and the nature of the relation between the components of linguistic knowledge and language processing. This volume demonstrates that interdisciplinary research can be fruitful, and provides groundwork for further research in Japanese sentence processing.
Connectionist Natural Language Processing
Author : Noel Sharkey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 24,12 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9401126240
Book Description
Connection science is a new information-processing paradigm which attempts to imitate the architecture and process of the brain, and brings together researchers from disciplines as diverse as computer science, physics, psychology, philosophy, linguistics, biology, engineering, neuroscience and AI. Work in Connectionist Natural Language Processing (CNLP) is now expanding rapidly, yet much of the work is still only available in journals, some of them quite obscure. To make this research more accessible this book brings together an important and comprehensive set of articles from the journal CONNECTION SCIENCE which represent the state of the art in Connectionist natural language processing; from speech recognition to discourse comprehension. While it is quintessentially Connectionist, it also deals with hybrid systems, and will be of interest to both theoreticians as well as computer modellers. Range of topics covered: Connectionism and Cognitive Linguistics Motion, Chomsky's Government-binding Theory Syntactic Transformations on Distributed Representations Syntactic Neural Networks A Hybrid Symbolic/Connectionist Model for Understanding of Nouns Connectionism and Determinism in a Syntactic Parser Context Free Grammar Recognition Script Recognition with Hierarchical Feature Maps Attention Mechanisms in Language Script-Based Story Processing A Connectionist Account of Similarity in Vowel Harmony Learning Distributed Representations Connectionist Language Users Representation and Recognition of Temporal Patterns A Hybrid Model of Script Generation Networks that Learn about Phonological Features Pronunciation in Text-to-Speech Systems
