Semantic Structures
Advances in Natural Language Processing
David L. Waltz(Editor)
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc (Publisher)
Published on 1. April 1989
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-89859-817-9 (ISBN)
Description
Focusing on text rather than on isolated sentences, this collection examines recent computer programs designed to aid in understanding natural language generation. All the systems concentrate on the semantics, pragmatics, and common sense knowledge necessary to understand, summarize, and learn new word and phrase definitions from text. Special emphasis is given to generating linguistic descriptions from perceptual inputs. Issues covered include the representation of episodic and semantic knowledge to support text understanding; the generation and verification of inferences from text; story understanding and the production of narrative summaries; and the interactions of syntax with semantic and common sense.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Mahwah
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-89859-817-9 (9780898598179)
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Content
Contents: M.G. Dyer, Knowledge Interactions and Integrated Parsing for Narrative Comprehension. R. Alterman, Event Concept Coherence. R.C. Berwick, Learning Word Meanings from Examples. W.G. Lehnert, C.L. Loiselle, An Introduction to Plot Units. B. Neumann, Natural Language Description of Time-Varying Scenes.