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Grishman, Ralph,

Computational linguistics : an introduction / Ralph Grishman, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. - Reprint edition. - viii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Studies in natural language processing .

Includes bibliographical references and index.


1 What is computational linguistics? : The objectives of computational linguistics -- Computational and theoretical linguistics -- Computational linguistics as engineering -- The structure of this survey : a tree diagram -- 2: Syntax analysis : The role of syntax analysis -- Is syntax analysis necessary? --
Phrase-structure languages -- Early systems: context-free parsers -- Transformational analyzers: first systems -- Augmented context-free parsers -- Other phrase-structure grammars -- Analyzing adjuncts -- Analyzing coordinate conjunction -- Parsing with probability and graded acceptability --
3: Semantic analysis: Formal languages for meaning representation -- Translation to logical form -- Semantic constraints -- Conceptual analyzers -- Anaphora resolution --
Analyzing sentence fragments -- Using the logical form -- 4: Discourse analysis and information structuring: Text grammar -- Organizing world knowledge -- Frames -- Analyzing narrative: scripts and plans -- Information formats -- Analyzing dialog --
5: Language generation: The poor cousin -- Sentence generation -- Text generation.

ISBN: 0521310385 9780521310383

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Computational linguistics.

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Index Terms--Genre/Form: --Reading book

Dewey Class. No.: 410.285 / GRI