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Naive Semantics for Natural Language Understanding

Author : Kathleen Dahlgren
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 146131075X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)

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Book Synopsis Naive Semantics for Natural Language Understanding by : Kathleen Dahlgren

Download or read book Naive Semantics for Natural Language Understanding written by Kathleen Dahlgren and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a theory, Naive Semantics (NS), a theory of the knowledge underlying natural language understanding. The basic assumption of NS is that knowing what a word means is not very different from knowing anything else, so that there is no difference in form of cognitive representation between lexical semantics and ency clopedic knowledge. NS represents word meanings as commonsense knowledge, and builds no special representation language (other than elements of first-order logic). The idea of teaching computers common sense knowledge originated with McCarthy and Hayes (1969), and has been extended by a number of researchers (Hobbs and Moore, 1985, Lenat et aI, 1986). Commonsense knowledge is a set of naive beliefs, at times vague and inaccurate, about the way the world is structured. Traditionally, word meanings have been viewed as criterial, as giving truth conditions for membership in the classes words name. The theory of NS, in identifying word meanings with commonsense knowledge, sees word meanings as typical descriptions of classes of objects, rather than as criterial descriptions. Therefore, reasoning with NS represen tations is probabilistic rather than monotonic. This book is divided into two parts. Part I elaborates the theory of Naive Semantics. Chapter 1 illustrates and justifies the theory. Chapter 2 details the representation of nouns in the theory, and Chapter 4 the verbs, originally published as "Commonsense Reasoning with Verbs" (McDowell and Dahlgren, 1987). Chapter 3 describes kind types, which are naive constraints on noun representations.

Speech & Language Processing

Author : Dan Jurafsky
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 9788131716724
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (167 download)

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Book Synopsis Speech & Language Processing by : Dan Jurafsky

Download or read book Speech & Language Processing written by Dan Jurafsky and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Knowledge Representation and the Semantics of Natural Language

Author : Hermann Helbig
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540299661
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Knowledge Representation and the Semantics of Natural Language by : Hermann Helbig

Download or read book Knowledge Representation and the Semantics of Natural Language written by Hermann Helbig and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-19 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural Language is not only the most important means of communication between human beings, it is also used over historical periods for the pres- vation of cultural achievements and their transmission from one generation to the other. During the last few decades, the ?ood of digitalized information has been growing tremendously. This tendency will continue with the globali- tion of information societies and with the growing importance of national and international computer networks. This is one reason why the theoretical und- standing and the automated treatment of communication processes based on natural language have such a decisive social and economic impact. In this c- text, the semantic representation of knowledge originally formulated in natural language plays a central part, because it connects all components of natural language processing systems, be they the automatic understanding of natural language (analysis), the rational reasoning over knowledge bases, or the g- eration of natural language expressions from formal representations. This book presents a method for the semantic representation of natural l- guage expressions (texts, sentences, phrases, etc. ) which can be used as a u- versal knowledge representation paradigm in the human sciences, like lingu- tics, cognitive psychology, or philosophy of language, as well as in com- tational linguistics and in arti?cial intelligence. It is also an attempt to close the gap between these disciplines, which to a large extent are still working separately.

Connectionist Natural Language Processing

Author : Noel Sharkey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401126240
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Connectionist Natural Language Processing by : Noel Sharkey

Download or read book Connectionist Natural Language Processing written by Noel Sharkey and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Connectionist Approaches to Natural Language Processing

Author : R G Reilly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317266307
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Book Synopsis Connectionist Approaches to Natural Language Processing by : R G Reilly

Download or read book Connectionist Approaches to Natural Language Processing written by R G Reilly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1992, when connectionist natural language processing (CNLP) was a new and burgeoning research area, this book represented a timely assessment of the state of the art in the field. It includes contributions from some of the best known researchers in CNLP and covers a wide range of topics. The book comprises four main sections dealing with connectionist approaches to semantics, syntax, the debate on representational adequacy, and connectionist models of psycholinguistic processes. The semantics and syntax sections deal with a variety of approaches to issues in these traditional linguistic domains, covering the spectrum from pure connectionist approaches to hybrid models employing a mixture of connectionist and classical AI techniques. The debate on the fundamental suitability of connectionist architectures for dealing with natural language processing is the focus of the section on representational adequacy. The chapters in this section represent a range of positions on the issue, from the view that connectionist models are intrinsically unsuitable for all but the associationistic aspects of natural language, to the other extreme which holds that the classical conception of representation can be dispensed with altogether. The final section of the book focuses on the application of connectionist models to the study of psycholinguistic processes. This section is perhaps the most varied, covering topics from speech perception and speech production, to attentional deficits in reading. An introduction is provided at the beginning of each section which highlights the main issues relating to the section topic and puts the constituent chapters into a wider context.

Natural Language Understanding

Author : James Allen
Publisher : Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Natural Language Understanding by : James Allen

Download or read book Natural Language Understanding written by James Allen and published by Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a leading authority in artificial intelligence, this book delivers a synthesis of the major modern techniques and the most current research in natural language processing. The approach is unique in its coverage of semantic interpretation and discourse alongside the foundational material in syntactic processing.

Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing

Author : Emily M. Bender
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1627050124
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (27 download)

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Book Synopsis Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing by : Emily M. Bender

Download or read book Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing written by Emily M. Bender and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many NLP tasks have at their core a subtask of extracting the dependencies—who did what to whom—from natural language sentences. This task can be understood as the inverse of the problem solved in different ways by diverse human languages, namely, how to indicate the relationship between different parts of a sentence. Understanding how languages solve the problem can be extremely useful in both feature design and error analysis in the application of machine learning to NLP. Likewise, understanding cross-linguistic variation can be important for the design of MT systems and other multilingual applications. The purpose of this book is to present in a succinct and accessible fashion information about the morphological and syntactic structure of human languages that can be useful in creating more linguistically sophisticated, more language-independent, and thus more successful NLP systems. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments / Introduction/motivation / Morphology: Introduction / Morphophonology / Morphosyntax / Syntax: Introduction / Parts of speech / Heads, arguments, and adjuncts / Argument types and grammatical functions / Mismatches between syntactic position and semantic roles / Resources / Bibliography / Author's Biography / General Index / Index of Languages

Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing

Author : Nicolas Nicolov
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027283974
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing by : Nicolas Nicolov

Download or read book Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing written by Nicolas Nicolov and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000-09-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together revised versions of a selection of papers presented at the Second International Conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing” (RANLP’97) held in Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, September 1997. The aim of the conference was to give researchers the opportunity to present new results in Natural Language Processing (NLP) based both on traditional and modern theories and approaches. The conference received substantial interest — 167 submissions from more than 20 countries. The best papers from the proceedings were selected for this volume, in the hope that they reflect the most significant and promising trends (and successful results) in NLP. The contributions have been grouped according to the following topics: tagging, lexical issues and parsing, word sense disambiguation and anaphora resolution, semantics, generation, machine translation, and categorisation and applications. The volume contains an extensive index.

Reversible Grammar in Natural Language Processing

Author : T. Strzalkowski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461527228
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Book Synopsis Reversible Grammar in Natural Language Processing by : T. Strzalkowski

Download or read book Reversible Grammar in Natural Language Processing written by T. Strzalkowski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reversible grammar allows computational models to be built that are equally well suited for the analysis and generation of natural language utterances. This task can be viewed from very different perspectives by theoretical and computational linguists, and computer scientists. The papers in this volume present a broad range of approaches to reversible, bi-directional, and non-directional grammar systems that have emerged in recent years. This is also the first collection entirely devoted to the problems of reversibility in natural language processing. Most papers collected in this volume are derived from presentations at a workshop held at the University of California at Berkeley in the summer of 1991 organised under the auspices of the Association for Computational Linguistics. This book will be a valuable reference to researchers in linguistics and computer science with interests in computational linguistics, natural language processing, and machine translation, as well as in practical aspects of computability.

Natural Language Processing: The PLNLP Approach

Author : Karen Jensen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461531705
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Book Synopsis Natural Language Processing: The PLNLP Approach by : Karen Jensen

Download or read book Natural Language Processing: The PLNLP Approach written by Karen Jensen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural language is easy for people and hard for machines. For two generations, the tantalizing goal has been to get computers to handle human languages in ways that will be compelling and useful to people. Obstacles are many and legendary. Natural Language Processing: The PLNLP Approach describes one group's decade of research in pursuit of that goal. A very broad coverage NLP system, including a programming language (PLNLP) development tools, and analysis and synthesis components, was developed and incorporated into a variety of well-known practical applications, ranging from text critiquing (CRITIQUE) to machine translation (e.g. SHALT). This books represents the first published collection of papers describing the system and how it has been used. Twenty-six authors from nine countries contributed to this volume. Natural language analysis, in the PLNLP approach, is done is six stages that move smoothly from syntax through semantics into discourse. The initial syntactic sketch is provided by an Augmented Phrase Structure Grammar (APSG) that uses exclusively binary rules and aims to produce some reasonable analysis for any input string. Its `approximate' analysis passes to the reassignment component, which takes the default syntactic attachments and adjusts them, using semantic information obtained by parsing definitions and example sentences from machine-readable dictionaries. This technique is an example of one facet of the PLNLP approach: the use of natural language itself as a knowledge representation language -- an innovation that permits a wide variety of online text materials to be exploited as sources of semantic information. The next stage computes the intrasential argument structure and resolves all references, both NP- and VP-anaphora, that can be treated at this point in the processing. Subsequently, additional components, currently not so well developed as the earlier ones, handle the further disambiguation of word senses, the normalization of paraphrases, and the construction of a paragraph (discourse) model by joining sentential semantic graphs. Natural Language Processing: The PLNLP Approach acquaints the reader with the theory and application of a working, real-world, domain-free NLP system, and attempts to bridge the gap between computational and theoretical models of linguistic structure. It provides a valuable resource for students, teachers, and researchers in the areas of computational linguistics, natural processing, artificial intelligence, and information science.

Computational and Conversational Discourse

Author : Eduard H. Hovy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662032937
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)

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Book Synopsis Computational and Conversational Discourse by : Eduard H. Hovy

Download or read book Computational and Conversational Discourse written by Eduard H. Hovy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating volume is based on a multidisciplinary workshop for linguists, sociologists and computational linguists. The authors discuss their favorite burning issues in discourse and display their own methodologies and styles of argumentation.

Emerging Technologies for Semantic Work Environments: Techniques, Methods, and Applications

Author : Rech, Jrg
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1599048787
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Book Synopsis Emerging Technologies for Semantic Work Environments: Techniques, Methods, and Applications by : Rech, Jrg

Download or read book Emerging Technologies for Semantic Work Environments: Techniques, Methods, and Applications written by Rech, Jrg and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's work is characterized by a high degree of innovation and thus demands a thorough overview of relevant knowledge in the world and in organizations. Semantic Work Environments support the work of the user by collecting knowledge about needs and providing processed and improved knowledge to be integrated into work. Emerging Technologies for Semantic Work Environments: Techniques, Methods, and Applications describes an overview of the emerging field of Semantic Work Environments by combining various research studies and underlining the similarities between different processes, issues and approaches in order to provide the reader with techniques, methods, and applications of the study.

New Concepts in Natural Language Generation

Author : Helmut Horacek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474246427
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Book Synopsis New Concepts in Natural Language Generation by : Helmut Horacek

Download or read book New Concepts in Natural Language Generation written by Helmut Horacek and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to inform researchers with an interest in natural language generation about advances in the field. It is organised around four topics – system architectures, content planning, discourse planning and realisation in linguistic form - and it presents some of the most important works in this area of research.

Natural Language and Information Systems

Author : Epaminondas Kapetanios
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540698582
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Natural Language and Information Systems written by Epaminondas Kapetanios and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-06-25 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2008, held in London, UK, in June 2008. The 31 revised full papers and 14 revised poster papers presented together with 3 invited talks and 4 papers of the NLDB 2008 doctoral symposium were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on natural language processing and understanding, conceptual modelling and ontologies, information retrieval, querying and question answering, document processing and text mining, software (requirements) engineering and specification.

Computational Linguistic Text Processing

Author : Rodolfo Delmonte
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781600217005
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Computational Linguistic Text Processing by : Rodolfo Delmonte

Download or read book Computational Linguistic Text Processing written by Rodolfo Delmonte and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of this book is the theoretical foundations of a theory LSLT -- Lexical Semantic Language Theory - and its implementation in a the system for text analysis and understanding called GETARUN, developed at the University of Venice, Laboratory of Computational Linguistics, Department of Language Sciences. LSLT encompasses a psycholinguistic theory of the way the language faculty works, a grammatical theory of the way in which sentences are analysed and generated -- for this we will be using Lexical-Functional Grammar -- a semantic theory of the way in which meaning is encoded and expressed in utterances -- for this we will be using Situation Semantics -, and a parsing theory of the way in which components of the theory interact in a common architecture to produce the needed language representation to be eventually spoken aloud or interpreted by the phonetic/acoustic language interface. LSLT will then be put to use to show how discourse relations are mapped automatically from text using the tools available in the 4 sub-theories, and in particular we will focus on Causal Relations showing how the various sub-theories contribute to address different types of causality.

Cooperating with Written Texts

Author : Dieter Stein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110127232
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Cooperating with Written Texts written by Dieter Stein and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1992 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Natural Language Generation in Artificial Intelligence and Computational Linguistics

Author : Cecile L. Paris
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475759452
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)

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Book Synopsis Natural Language Generation in Artificial Intelligence and Computational Linguistics by : Cecile L. Paris

Download or read book Natural Language Generation in Artificial Intelligence and Computational Linguistics written by Cecile L. Paris and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the aims of Natural Language Processing is to facilitate .the use of computers by allowing their users to communicate in natural language. There are two important aspects to person-machine communication: understanding and generating. While natural language understanding has been a major focus of research, natural language generation is a relatively new and increasingly active field of research. This book presents an overview of the state of the art in natural language generation, describing both new results and directions for new research. The principal emphasis of natural language generation is not only to facili tate the use of computers but also to develop a computational theory of human language ability. In doing so, it is a tool for extending, clarifying and verifying theories that have been put forth in linguistics, psychology and sociology about how people communicate. A natural language generator will typically have access to a large body of knowledge from which to select information to present to users as well as numer of expressing it. Generating a text can thus be seen as a problem of ous ways decision-making under multiple constraints: constraints from the propositional knowledge at hand, from the linguistic tools available, from the communicative goals and intentions to be achieved, from the audience the text is aimed at and from the situation and past discourse. Researchers in generation try to identify the factors involved in this process and determine how best to represent the factors and their dependencies.