Overview
- The contributions in the present book represent several areas of linguistics – descriptive, formal and computational – as well as translation studies
- It well illustrates the current diversity of research questions and hypotheses in language studies
- Anyone interested in the study of language and the intriguing puzzles offered by translation, discourse and semantics will be interested
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Diana Santos is associate professor of Portuguese at the University of Oslo and she has worked in computational linguistics, contrastive studies, and corpus-based semantics for more than 25 years, being the leader of Linguateca, a resource center for the computational processing of the Portuguese language.
Dr. Krister Lindén is research director of FIN-CLARIN at the University of Helsinki and he has worked in computational linguistics, language technology and language studies for more than 25 years.
Dr. Wanjiku Ng'ang'a is a senior faculty member at the School of Computing and Informatics, University of Nairobi, and is also a Research Lead in the C4DLab which undertakes R&D in ICT4D. Her research work in language technology focuses on African languages, having worked on Swahili, Gĩkũyũ and Igbo.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Shall We Play the Festschrift Game?
Book Subtitle: Essays on the Occasion of Lauri Carlson's 60th Birthday
Editors: Diana Santos, Krister Lindén, Wanjiku Ng’ang’a
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30773-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-30772-0Published: 14 August 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43251-4Published: 20 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-30773-7Published: 14 August 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 244
Topics: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, general