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Machine Learning of Natural Language

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Authors:
  1. David M. W. Powers

    1. FB Informatik, University of Kaiserslautern, Petersham, Australia
      Macquarie University, Petersham, Australia
      IMPACT Ltd, Petersham, Australia

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  2. Christopher C. R. Turk

    1. ‘Bentwys’, Llanbair Discoed, Chepstow, Gwent, UK
      College of Cardiff, University of Wales, UK

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Art, Science and Engineering

    • David M. W. Powers, Christopher C. R. Turk
    Pages 1-25

  3. Metaphor as a Cognitive Process

    • David M. W. Powers, Christopher C. R. Turk
    Pages 27-54

  4. Psychology and Psycholinguistics

    • David M. W. Powers, Christopher C. R. Turk
    Pages 55-75

  5. Language Defects and Correction

    • David M. W. Powers, Christopher C. R. Turk
    Pages 77-95

  6. Cognition and Restriction

    • David M. W. Powers, Christopher C. R. Turk
    Pages 97-127

  7. Nativism and Constructivism

    • David M. W. Powers, Christopher C. R. Turk
    Pages 129-160

  8. Neurology and Neurolinguistics

    • David M. W. Powers, Christopher C. R. Turk
    Pages 161-186

  9. The Nature of Language

    • David M. W. Powers, Christopher C. R. Turk
    Pages 187-208

  10. The Mechanics of Language

    • David M. W. Powers, Christopher C. R. Turk
    Pages 209-231

  11. The Ubiquity of the Sentence

    • David M. W. Powers, Christopher C. R. Turk
    Pages 233-252

  12. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

    • David M. W. Powers, Christopher C. R. Turk
    Pages 253-277

  13. Heuristics and Analytic Intransigence

    • David M. W. Powers, Christopher C. R. Turk
    Pages 279-302

  14. Postulates, Claims and Hypotheses

    • David M. W. Powers, Christopher C. R. Turk
    Pages 303-326

  15. Computer Modelling Experiments

    • David M. W. Powers, Christopher C. R. Turk
    Pages 327-358
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About this book

We met because we both share the same views of language. Language is a living organism, produced by neural mechanisms relating in large numbers as a society. Language exists between minds, as a way of communicating between them, not as an autonomous process. The logical 'rules' seem to us an epiphe­ nomena ·of the neural mechanism, rather than an essential component in language. This view of language has been advocated by an increasing number of workers, as the view that language is simply a collection of logical rules has had less and less success. People like Yorick Wilks have been able to show in paper after paper that almost any rule which can be devised can be shown to have exceptions. The meaning does not lie in the rules. David Powers is a teacher of computer science. Christopher Turk, like many workers who have come into the field of AI (Artificial Intelligence) was originally trained in literature. He moved into linguistics, and then into computational linguistics. In 1983 he took a sabbatical in Roger Shank's AI project in the Computer Science Department at Yale University. Like an earlier visitor to the project, John Searle from California, Christopher Turk was increasingly uneasy at the view of language which was used at Yale.

Authors and Affiliations

  • FB Informatik, University of Kaiserslautern, Petersham, Australia

    David M. W. Powers

  • Macquarie University, Petersham, Australia

    David M. W. Powers

  • IMPACT Ltd, Petersham, Australia

    David M. W. Powers

  • ‘Bentwys’, Llanbair Discoed, Chepstow, Gwent, UK

    Christopher C. R. Turk

  • College of Cardiff, University of Wales, UK

    Christopher C. R. Turk

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Machine Learning of Natural Language

  • Authors: David M. W. Powers, Christopher C. R. Turk

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1697-4

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-19557-3Published: 04 December 1989

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-1697-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 358

  • Topics: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligence

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