rent-now

Rent More, Save More! Use code: ECRENTAL

5% off 1 book, 7% off 2 books, 10% off 3+ books

9781402052842

Words And Intelligence I

by ; ;
  • ISBN13:

    9781402052842

  • ISBN10:

    1402052847

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-12-15
  • Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc
  • Purchase Benefits
  • Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping On Orders Over $35!
    Your order must be $35 or more to qualify for free economy shipping. Bulk sales, PO's, Marketplace items, eBooks and apparel do not qualify for this offer.
  • eCampus.com Logo Get Rewarded for Ordering Your Textbooks! Enroll Now
  • Write a Review Icon Write a Review
List Price: $329.99 Save up to $254.75
  • Digital
    $163.02*
    Add to Cart

    DURATION
    PRICE
    *To support the delivery of the digital material to you, a digital delivery fee of $3.99 will be charged on each digital item.

Summary

Yorick Wilks is a central figure in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. His influence extends to many areas and includes contributions to Machines Translation, word sense disambiguation, dialogue modeling and Information Extraction. This book celebrates the work of Yorick Wilks in the form of a selection of his papers which are intended to reflect the range and depth of his work. The volume accompanies a Festschrift which celebrates his contribution to the fields of Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence. The papers include early work carried out at Cambridge University, descriptions of groundbreaking work on Machine Translation and Preference Semantics as well as more recent works on belief modeling and computational semantics. The selected papers reflect Yorick's contribution to both practical and theoretical aspects of automatic language processing.

Table of Contents

Preface
Origin of the essays
Text Searching with Templates
Decidability and Natural Language
The Stanford Machine Translation and Understanding Project
An Intelligent Analyser and Understander of English
A Preferential, Pattern Seeking, Semantics for Natural Language Inference
Good and Bad Arguments about Semantic Primitives
Making Preferences More Active
Providing Machine Tractable Dictionary Tools
Belief Ascription, Metaphor and Intensional Identity
Stone soup and the French Room
Senses and texts
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Rewards Program