The Language of Word Meaning (Studies in Natural Language Processing) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521780489 ISBN 13: 9780521780483

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Synopsis

This volume is a collection of original contributions that address the problem of words and their meaning. This represents a still difficult and controversial area within various disciplines: linguistics, philosophy, and artificial intelligence. Although all of these disciplines have to tackle the issue, so far there is no overarching methodology agreed upon by researchers. The aim of the volume is to provide answers based on empirical linguistics methods that are relevant across all the disciplines and provide a bridge among researchers looking at word meaning from different angles.

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About the Author

Manny Rayner is a researcher at the NASA Ames Research Center, California. Beth Ann Hockey is head of NASA's Clarissa project, which in June of 2005 became the first spoken dialogue system to be used in space. Pierrette Bouillon is head of the MedSLT medical spoken language translation project at Geneva University.

Review

Review of the hardback: 'Editors Bouillon and Busa deserve high praise for their selection of a wide range of divergent views on this subject, some of which are antithetical to their own beliefs ... This book ... provides a thorough and even-handed account of the enigmatic question of world meaning. Moreover, it offers some reasonable ways to address this topic.' Journal of Literary Semantics

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521780489
• ISBN 13: 9780521780483
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 404
• Editor: Busa Federica, Bouillon Pierrette