Overview

Yorick Wilks is a central figure in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. His influence extends to many areas and includes contributions to Machines Translation, word sense disambiguation, dialogue modeling and Information Extraction. This book celebrates the work of Yorick Wilks in the form of a selection of his papers which are intended to reflect the range and depth of his work. The volume accompanies a Festschrift which celebrates his contribution to the fields of Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence. The papers include early work carried out at Cambridge University, descriptions of groundbreaking work on Machine Translation and Preference Semantics as well as more recent works on belief modeling and computational semantics. The selected papers reflect Yorick’s contribution to both practical and theoretical aspects of automatic language processing.

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Author:   Khurshid Ahmad ,  Christopher Brewster ,  Mark Stevenson
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Volume:   35
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.310kg
ISBN:  

9781402052842

ISBN 10:   1402052847
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   31 March 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Text Searching with Templates.- Decidability and Natural Language.- The Stanford Machine Translation Project.- An Intelligent Analyzer and Understander of English.- A Preferential, Pattern-Seeking, Semantics for Natural Language Inference.- Good and Bad Arguments About Semantic Primitives.- Making Preferences More Active.- Providing Machine Tractable Dictionary Tools.- Belief Ascription, Metaphor, and Intensional Identification.- Stone Soup and the French Room.- Senses and Texts.

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From the reviews: This compilation of papers by Yorick Wilks must be recommended to every library specialised in machine translation, computational linguistics, or artificial intelligence. ! In sum, all the eleven compiled papers exude Yorick Wilks' splendid and talented contributions to the major issues of language technology and machine translation during the three vital decades extending from 1964 to 1997. (Joseba Abaitua, Machine Translation, Vol. 22, 2008)

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