Overview
- First theory of language designed specifically to model the mechanism of natural language communication
- Basis for human computer communication in natural language
- More than 700 exercises review key ideas and important problems
- In the 2nd ed., Chapters 22-24, completely rewritten, present a declarative outline for programming the semantic and pragmatic interpretation for NL communication
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Introduction
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Morphology and Syntax
Keywords
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Reviews
From the reviews of the second edition:
"Hausser sets out a detailed case for the view that all aspects of language … are strictly ‘time-linear’, that is, reflect a radical processing in real time, a view which, if it can be sustained, involves a radical shift in our concepts of language. … Hausser provides a clear and devastating critique of orthodox constituent-based phrase structure grammar … . The book is presented as a textbook with exercises checking comprehension at the end of each chapter … . Overall then, the book is provocative … ." (Ruth Kempson, Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 37, 2001)
"'Foundations of Computational Linguistics' should interest language philosophers, theoretical linguists and computational linguists alike. … 'Foundations of Computational Linguistics' presents both a state of the art and the author’s own theory, which contains a lot of important innovations. … Hausser’s requirements in computational linguistics are ambitious but, as he shows (and this is surely one of the great merits of the book), not unrealistic. … We highly recommend this book, which is an important and very rewarding book indeed." (Paul Gochet and Michel Kefer, Revue Internationale de Philosophie, Vol. 3 (221), 2002)
"The book presents in a unified way a complete theory of natural language and its ‘implementations’ in terms of the robot Curious. But also for readers interested in a broader view of computational linguistics, studying the book may be worthwhile since the author always compares his particular approach to other more familiar theories from the literature." (Heribert Vollmer, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 984, 2002)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Foundations of Computational Linguistics
Book Subtitle: Human-Computer Communication in Natural Language
Authors: Roland Hausser
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04337-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-04337-0Published: 09 March 2013
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XIV, 578
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information Storage and Retrieval, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages