Words and intelligence

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Words and intelligence

edited by Khurshid Ahmad, Christopher Brewster, Mark Stevenson

(Text, speech, and language technology, v. 35-36)

Springer, c2007

  • v. 1
  • v. 2

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Includes bibliographical references

Contents of Works

  • v. 1. Selected papers by Yorick Wilks
  • v. 2. Essays in honor of Yorick Wilks

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 1 ISBN 9781402052842

Description

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 selected papers reflect Yorick's contribution to both practical and theoretical aspects of automatic language processing.

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.
Volume

v. 2 ISBN 9781402058325

Description

Yorick Wilks is a central figure in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. This book celebrates Wilks's career from the perspective of his peers in original chapters each of which analyses an aspect of his work and links it to current thinking in that area. This volume forms a two-part set together with Words and Intelligence I: Selected Works by Yorick Wilks, by the same editors.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Khurshid Ahmad, Christopher Brewster, and Mark Stevenson Mark Maybury / Yorick Alexander Wilks: A Meaningful Journey John A Barnden / Metaphor, Semantic Preferences and Context-Sensitivity Nicoletta Calzolari / Towards a new generation of Language Resources in the Semantic Web vision Robert Gaizauskas, Horacio Saggion, and Emma Barker / Information Access and Natural Language Processing: A Stimulating Dialogue Gregory Grefenstette / Three steps in Wilks work: From theory to resources to practice Patrick Hanks / Preference Syntagmatics Nancy Ide and David Woolner / Historical Ontologies Makoto Nagao / An Amorphous Object Must Be Cut By A Blunt Tool Sergei Nirenburg / Homer, the Author of The Iliad and the Computational-Linguistic Turn Nigel Shadbolt / Philosophical Engineering Harold Somers / Machine Translation and the World Wide Web Karen Sparck Jones / Semantic primitives: the tip of the iceberg John Tait and Michael Oakes / Molecules, Meaning and Post-Modernist Semantics

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  • NCID
    BA82188555
  • ISBN
    • 9781402052842
    • 9781402058325
  • Country Code
    ne
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Dordrecht
  • Pages/Volumes
    2 v.
  • Size
    25 cm
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