Representation and Inference for Natural Language A First Course in Computational Semantics |
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| Author:
| Blackburn, Patrick
Bos, Johan |
| Series title: | Studies in Computational Linguistics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-57586-495-2 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2005 |
| Publisher: | CSLI Publications/Center for the Study of Language & Information
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $70.00 |
Book Description:
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How can computers distinguish the coherent from the unintelligible, recognize new information in a sentence, or draw inferences from a natural language passage? Computational semantics is an exciting new field that seeks answers to these questions, and this volume is the first textbook wholly devoted to this growing subdiscipline. The book explains the underlying theoretical issues and fundamental techniques for computing semantic representations for fragments of natural language. This...
More DescriptionHow can computers distinguish the coherent from the unintelligible, recognize new information in a sentence, or draw inferences from a natural language passage? Computational semantics is an exciting new field that seeks answers to these questions, and this volume is the first textbook wholly devoted to this growing subdiscipline. The book explains the underlying theoretical issues and fundamental techniques for computing semantic representations for fragments of natural language. This volume will be an essential text for computer scientists, linguists, and anyone interested in the development of computational semantics.