An Introduction to Computational Linguistics
Book
Paperback/Softback
550 pages
978-0-631-19454-5 (ISBN)
Description
This is an introduction to fundamental topics in natural language processing. As a self-contained linguistically-oriented course book, the aim is to provide the student with the basic skills to build a rudimentary natural language interface to a database, and includes sections on syntactic analysis and representation, parsing, model theoretic semantics, ambiguity, pragmatics, and relationships to artificial intelligence. The introdution covers the Prolog programming language, and is illustrated with programs written in the Prolog programming language,.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
references
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 171 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-631-19454-5 (9780631194545)
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Persons
Content
Part 1 Background: introducing computational linguistics. Part 2 Simple grammars and parsers: phrase-structure grammar; an introduction to parsing; parsing in Prolog. Part 3 Semantics and semantic translation: an introduction to semantics; the semantics of quantified noun phrases; interfaces to databases. Part 4 Practical parsers: chart parsers; table-driven shift-reduce parsing. Part 5 Unification-based grammar formalisms: definite clause grammars; unification-based grammars. Part 6 Conclusions: conclusions and prospects. Appendices: useful Prolog predicates; Prolog programs; answers to exercises.