Overview
- The first book on the Database Semantics theory, where natural communication is considered a transfer of content from the speaker's database into the hearer's database using natural language signs
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The Communication Mechanism of Cognition
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Back Matter
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The Major Constructions of Natural Language
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The Declarative Specification of Formal Fragments
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About this book
Everyday life would be easier if we could simply talk with machines instead of having to program them. Before such talking robots can be built, however, there must be a theory of how communicating with natural language works. This requires not only a grammatical analysis of the language signs, but also a model of the cognitive agent, with interfaces for recognition and action, an internal database, and an algorithm for reading content in and out. In Database Semantics, these ingredients are used for reconstructing natural language communication as a mechanism for transferring content from the database of the speaker to the database of the hearer.
Part I of this book presents a high-level description of an artificial agent which humans can freely communicate with in their accustomed language. Part II analyzes the major constructions of natural language, i.e., intra- and extrapropositional functor - argument structure, coordination, and coreference, in the speaker and the hearer mode. Part III defines declarative specifications for fragments of English, which are used for an implementation in Java.
The book provides researchers, graduate students and software engineers with a functional framework for the theoretical analysis of natural language communication and for all practical applications of natural language processing.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"Roland Hausser’s book provides a clear and detailed introduction into the field of database semantics (or DBS). The task of the database semantics project is to provide a model of natural language communication between human agents and robots. … The book is divided into three parts. … This is a competent and carefully crafted book. … The book will be valuable for instructors and graduate students in computer science and linguistics. Advanced undergraduates may also study it with profit." (Sandy Berkovski, Natural Language Engineering, Vol. 15 (3), 2009)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Computational Model of Natural Language Communication
Book Subtitle: Interpretation, Inference, and Production in Database Semantics
Authors: Roland Hausser
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-35477-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-35476-5Published: 02 August 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07130-0Published: 14 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-35477-2Published: 28 September 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 365
Topics: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction