Overview
- The papers include descriptions of groundbreaking work on Machine Translation and Preference Semantics
- The selected papers reflect Yorick Wilks'contribution to both practical and theoretical aspects of automatic language processing
Part of the book series: Text, Speech and Language Technology (TLTB, volume 35)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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About this book
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.
Reviews
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"This compilation of papers by Yorick Wilks must be recommended to every library specialised in machine translation, computational linguistics, or artificial intelligence. … In sum, all the eleven compiled papers exude Yorick Wilks’ splendid and talented contributions to the major issues of language technology and machine translation during the three vital decades extending from 1964 to 1997." (Joseba Abaitua, Machine Translation, Vol. 22, 2008)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Words and Intelligence I
Book Subtitle: Selected Papers by Yorick Wilks
Editors: Khurshid Ahmad, Christopher Brewster, Mark Stevenson
Series Title: Text, Speech and Language Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5285-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5284-2Published: 31 March 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7330-3Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5285-9Published: 03 May 2007
Series ISSN: 1386-291X
Series E-ISSN: 2542-9388
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 280
Topics: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Semantics, Philosophy of Language