Computational Lexical Semantics (Studies in Natural Language Processing) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521444101 ISBN 13: 9780521444101

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Computational Lexical Semantics is one of the first volumes to provide models for the creation of various kinds of computerized lexicons for the automatic treatment of natural language, with applications to, among other things, machine translation, automatic indexing, database front-ends, and knowledge extraction. It focuses on semantic issues, as seen by linguists, psychologists, and computer scientists. Besides describing academic research, the book also covers ongoing industrial projects.

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Book Description

Lexical semantics has become a major research area within computational linguistics, drawing from psycholinguistics, knowledge representation, and computer algorithms and architecture. Research programs whose goal is the definition of large lexicons are asking what the appropriate representation structure is for different facets of lexical information. Among these facets, semantic information is probably the most complex and the least explored. Computational Lexical Semantics is one of the first volumes to provide models for the creation of various kinds of computerized lexicons for the automatic treatment of natural language, with applications to machine translation, automatic indexing, and database front-ends, knowledge extraction, among other things. It focuses on semantic issues, as seen by linguists, psychologists, and computer scientists. Besides describing academic research, it also covers ongoing industrial projects.

Review

"...supplies a fascinating snapshot of the state-of-the-art in the early 1990s." Paul Deane, Computational Linguistics

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521444101
• ISBN 13: 9780521444101
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 458
• Editor: Saint-Dizier Patrick, Viegas Evelyn