Mathematical linguistics
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Mathematical linguistics
（Advanced information and knowledge processing）
Springer, c2008
Available at 9 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-280) and index
"e-ISBN 9781846289866"
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Mathematical Linguistics introduces the mathematical foundations of linguistics to computer scientists, engineers, and mathematicians interested in natural language processing. The book presents linguistics as a cumulative body of knowledge from the ground up: no prior knowledge of linguistics is assumed. As the first textbook of its kind, this book is useful for those in information science and in natural language technologies.
Table of Contents
Preface.- Introduction.- The subject matter.- Cumulative knowledge.- Definitions.- Formalization.- Foundations.- Mesoscopy.- Further reading.- The Elements.- Generation.- Axioms, rules and constraints.- String rewriting.- Further reading.- Phonology.- Phonemes.- Natural classes and distinctive features.- Suprasegmentals and autosegments.- Phonological computation.- Further reading.- Morphology.- The prosodic hierarchy.- Word formation.- Optimality.- Zipf's Law.- Further reading.- Syntax.- Combinatorical theories.- Grammatical theories.- Semantics-driven theories.- Weighted theories.- The regular domain.- External evidence.- Further reading.- Semantics.- The explanatory burden of semantics.- The standard theory.- Grammatical semantics.- Further reading.- Complexity.- Information.- Kolmogorov complexity.- Learning.- Further reading.- Linguistic Pattern Recognition.- Quantization.- Markov processes, Hidden Markov models.- High-level signal processing.- Document classification.- Further reading.- Speech and Handwriting.- Low-level speech processing.- Phonemes as hidden units.- Handwriting and machine print.- Further reading.- Simplicity.- Previous reading.- Bibliography.- Index
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