Bøger i Studies in Computational Linguistics (CSLI) serien

Examines how natural language rules and knowledge of the world work together to produce correct understandings of expressions that cannot be fully understood through literal reading. This is an in-depth work on semantics and natural language, and will be useful to scholars in computational linguistics.

Grammatical Framework is a programming language designed for writing grammars that has the capability of addressing several languages in parallel. This title demonstrates how to write grammars in Grammatical Framework and use them in applications such as tourist phrase-books, spoken dialogue systems, and natural language interfaces.

Finding a particular scientific document amid thousands of other documents can often seem like an insurmountable task. This book shows how linguistic theory can provide a solution by analyzing rhetorical structures to make information retrieval easier and faster. It applies empirical discourse studies to pressing issues of document management.

Explores Japanese morphology and syntactic analysis, discourse, and natural language process applications. This book presents such techniques in a manner accessible to those with little or no familiarity with Japanese. It also features papers that may broaden the scope of our study of Japanese linguistic phenomena.

Focusing on the descriptive facts of English, this volume provides an introduction to English syntax for students with no prior knowledge of English grammar or syntactic analysis. It helps students appreciate the various sentence patterns available in the language and understand insights into core data of its syntax.