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OverviewThis text provides a general survey of and introduction to the range of work in lexical linguistics and corpora - the study of such on-line resources as dictionaries and other texts - in the broader fields of natural language processing and artificial intelligence. The authors integrate and synthesize the goals and methods of computational lexicons in relation to the disciplines of philosophy, linguistics and psychology. One of the underlying messages of the book is that current research should be guided by both computational and theoretical tools and not only by statistical techniques - that matters have gone far beyond counting to encompass the difficult province of meaning itself and how it can be formally expressed. This work examines: the philosophical background of the study of meaning, specifically word meaning; the early work on treating dictionaries as texts; the first serious efforts at extracting information from machine-readable dictionaries (MRDs); and the conversion of MRDs into usable lexical knowledge bases. The authors provide a comparative survey of world-wide work on extracting usable structures from dictionaries for computational-linguistic purposes and a discussion of how those structures differ from or interact with structures derived from standard texts (or corpora). Also covered are automatic techniques for analyzing MRDs, genus hierarchies and networks, numerical methods of language processing related to dictionaries, automatic processing of bilingual dictionaries and consumer projects using MRDs. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Yorick A. Wilks (The University of Sheffield) , Brian M Slator (North Dakota State Univ) , Louise Guthrie , Louise Guthrie (Research Associate, Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, USA)Publisher: MIT Press Ltd Imprint: MIT Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9780262231824ISBN 10: 0262231824 Pages: 301 Publication Date: 23 January 1996 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationYorick Wilks is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Institute of Language, Speech, and Hearing at the University of Sheffield, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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