Constraints, Language and Computation
Published on 14. January 1994
Book
Hardback
391 pages
978-0-12-597930-6 (ISBN)
Description
Constraint-based linguistics is intersected by three fields: logic, linguistics, and computer sciences. The central theme that ties these different disciplines together is the notion of a linguistic formalism or metalanguage. This metalanguage has good mathematical properties, is designed to express descriptions of language, and has a semantics that can be implemented on a computer. Constraints, Language and Computation discusses the theory and practice of constraint-based computational linguistics. The book captures both the maturity of the field and some of its more interesting future prospects during a particulary important moment of development in this field.
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Language
English
Place of publication
San Diego
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 151 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-12-597930-6 (9780125979306)
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M. A. Rosner | C. J. Rupp | Torrence Johnson
Constraints, Language and Computation
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Persons
Torrence V. Johnson is a specialist on icy satellites in the solar system. He has written over 130 publications for scientific journals. He received a Ph.D. in planetary science from the California Institute of Technology and is now the Chief Scientist for Solar System Exploration at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He was the Project Scientist for the Galileo mission and is currently an investigator on the Cassini mission. He is the recipient of two NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medals and the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal and has an honorary doctorate from the University of Padua, where Galileo made his first observations of the solar system.
Content
Overview. Structures, Language and Translations: The Structural Approach to Feature Logic. Some Remarks on the Logic of Unification Grammars. A Feature Value Logic with Intensionality, Nonwell Foundedness and Functional and Relational Dependencies. Properties of Horn Clauses in Feature-Structure Logic. The Formal and Computational Theory of Complex Constraint Solution. Describing Sets with Sets: Remarks on the Use and Interpretation of Set-Valued Feature Structures. Feature Logic with Weak Subsumption Constraints. Feature-Value Logics. Some Limits on the Role of Defaults. Constraint Propogation and Semamtic Representation. Meanings as Constraints on Information States. Derivation Without Lexical Rules. Head Corner Parsing. Shake-And-Bake Translation. Bibliography. Index.