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Words and Intelligence I

Selected Papers by Yorick Wilks

  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
  2. Text Searching with Templates

    • Yorick Wilks
    Pages 1-7
  3. Decidability and Natural Language

    • Yorick Wilks
    Pages 9-27
  4. The Stanford Machine Translation Project

    • Yorick Wilks
    Pages 29-59
  5. Making Preferences More Active

    • Yorick Wilks
    Pages 141-166
  6. Providing Machine Tractable Dictionary Tools

    • Yorick Wilks, Dan Fass, Cheng-ming Guo, James E. McDonald, Tony Plate, Brian M. Slator
    Pages 167-216
  7. Belief Ascription, Metaphor, and Intensional Identification

    • Afzal Ballim, Yorick Wilks, John Barnden
    Pages 217-253
  8. Stone Soup and the French Room

    • Yorick Wilks
    Pages 255-265
  9. Senses and Texts

    • Yorick Wilks
    Pages 267-279

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.

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From the reviews:

"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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

    Khurshid Ahmad

  • University of Sheffield, UK

    Christopher Brewster, Mark Stevenson

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