Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Representation: Language for Knowledge and Knowledge for Language

Iwanska, Lucja M (Editor), and Shapiro, Stuart C

ISBN 10: 0262590212 / ISBN 13: 9780262590211

Published by AAAI Press, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Representation: Language for Knowledge and Knowledge for Language
• Publisher: AAAI Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262590212
• ISBN 13: 9780262590211
• Binding: Trade paperback

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Synopsis

The essays in this interdisciplinary book cover a range of implementations and designs, from formal computational models to large-scale NL processing systems.

Natural language (NL) refers to human language—complex, irregular, diverse, with all its philosophical problems of meaning and context. Setting a new direction in AI research, this book explores the development of knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR) systems that simulate the role of NL in human information and knowledge processing. Traditionally, KRR systems have incorporated NL as an interface to an expert system or knowledge base that performed tasks separate from NL processing. As this book shows, however, the computational nature of representation and inference in NL makes it the ideal level for all tasks in an intelligent computer system. NL processing combines the qualitative characteristics of human knowledge processing with a computer's quantitative advantages, allowing for in-depth, systematic processing of vast amounts of information. The essays in this interdisciplinary book cover a range of implementations and designs, from formal computational models to large-scale NL processing systems.

Contributors
Syed S. Ali, Bonnie J. Dorr, Karen Ehrlich, Robert Givan, Susan M. Haller, Sanda Harabagiu, Chung Hee Hwang, Lucja Iwanska, Kellyn Kruger, Naveen Mata, David A. McAllester, David D. McDonald, Susan W. McRoy, Dan Moldovan, William J. Rapaport, Lenhart Schubert, Stuart C. Shapiro, Clare R. Voss

About the Author

Lucja Iwanska is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Wayne State University. Stuart C. Shapiro is Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo.