Words and Intelligence I

Selected Papers by Yorick Wilks

Khurshid Ahmad, Christopher Brewster, Mark Stevenson (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-7330-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.11.2010
Reihe/Serie	Text, Speech and Language Technology ; 35
Zusatzinfo	XII, 280 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
ISBN-10	90-481-7330-2 / 9048173302
ISBN-13	978-90-481-7330-3 / 9789048173303
Zustand	Neuware