This book traces the history of language technology from writing - the first technology designed for language - to digital speech and contemporary language systems. Written in a clear, readable style, the book offers fascinating reading for everyone interested in how language and technology have shaped and continue to shape our day-to-day lives.
Taking as its starting point the fact that language is not a mirror of reality but lets us share what we know, believe and think about reality, this book focuses on language as a social phenomenon, and makes visible the attitudes and beliefs expressed by the members of a discourse community.
Corpus linguistics uses large electronic databases of language to examine hypotheses about language use. This book presents a comprehensive survey of the ways in which corpus linguistics is being used by researchers. It aims to provide a snapshot of the field of corpus linguistics.
This book presents the latest research on web genres and emerging document types. It covers a wide range of web-genre focused subjects, such as: the identification of the sources of web genres, automatic web genre identification and structure-oriented models.
Examines the processes involved in dictionary-making using computational linguistics, including tagging, parsing, spell-checking, lexical semantics and machine translation. This book examines dictionary-building in English, but also includes appendices applying natural language processing to French and German.
Constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First and Second International Symposia on Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, held in Rocquencourt, France, in October 2007 and in Providence, RI, USA, in May 2008 respectively. This title presents the 11 revised full papers of the first and the 12 revised papers of the second symposium.
Interpreting Motion shows how language structures constrain concepts of motion, analyzing the semantics of motion expressions in a range of contexts from route navigation to textual description. It is written for a broad audience including linguists, cognitive and computer scientists, and those working in GIS and artificial intelligence.
Focuses on the theoretical foundations of the theory LSLT - Lexical Semantic Language Theory - and its implementation in the system for text analysis and understanding called GETARUN, developed at the University of Venice, Laboratory of Computational Linguistics, Department of Language Sciences.
Presenting the seminal works of Professor Halliday, this title includes works covering developments in machine translation and corpus linguistics. It also includes a discussion of collaborative efforts bringing together those working in systemic functional grammar, fuzzy logic and 'intelligent computing'.
This collection of contributions from leading researchers in the field of natural language processing technology details their recent work which includes new techniques as well as results. It focuses on dependency parsing, domain adaptation, and deep parsing.
Provides a reference to one of the most active and productive fields in linguistics: computational linguistics. This work describes the major concepts, methods, and applications; provides an overview of the field; describes various tasks, techniques, and tools in natural language processing; and also surveys contemporary applications.
Never before have so many resources been available to support the teaching of English. With clear descriptions and interactive tasks, this introduction demonstrates how online corpora can be used in the teaching and learning of English at different linguistic levels, including vocabulary, grammar, discourse and pronunciation.
Demonstrates how corpus-based research can advance the understanding of linguistic phenomena in a given language. By presenting a detailed analysis of collocations and idioms in a digital corpus of English and German, this volume shows how the use of collocations and idioms has changed over time, and suggests possible triggers for this change.
Constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2008, held in Aveiro, Portugal, in September 2008. This title includes papers that are organized in topical sections on speech analysis; ontologies, semantics and anaphora resolution; and speech synthesis.
Provides an overview of a dynamic and rapidly growing area with a widely applied methodology. This handbook covers the historical development of the field and its growing influence and application in other areas. It is suitable for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates.
Provides a global overview of management as a discipline and profession in part constructed through management literature. This book explores a large corpus of bestselling books in order to identity the structural, pragmatic and cognitive patterns that characterize these texts.
Corpus linguistics is often regarded as a methodology in its own right. This book includes coverage of the lexical priming theory, parole-linguistics, a four-part model of language system and language use, and the concept of local textual functions. It illustrates the theoretical arguments.
Covers the proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, held in Hyderabad, India, in January 2009. This book contains papers that deal with the structure of Panini's "Astadhyayi", parsing issues, various aspects of machine translation and the Web concordance of an important Sanskrit text.
Using a corpus of data drawn from naturally-occurring second language conversations, this book explores the role of idiomaticity in English as a native language, and its comparative role in English as a lingua franca. It examines how idiomaticity enables first language learners to achieve a greater degree of fluency.