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Words and Intelligence II

Essays in Honor of Yorick Wilks

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Khurshid Ahmad

    1. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

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  2. Christopher Brewster

    1. University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

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  3. Mark Stevenson

    1. University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

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  • Celebrates the work of Yorick Wilks from the perspective of his peers
  • Consists of original contributions from eminent scientists

Part of the book series: Text, Speech and Language Technology (TLTB, volume 36)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Yorick Alexander Wilks: A Meaningful Journey

    • Mark Maybury
    Pages 1-37

  3. Metaphor, Semantic Preferences and Context-Sensitivity

    • John A. Barnden
    Pages 39-62

  4. Towards a New Generation of Language Resources in the Semantic Web Vision

    • Nicoletta Calzolari
    Pages 63-83

  5. Information Access and Natural Language Processing: A Stimulating Dialogue

    • Robert Gaizauskas, Horacio Saggion, Emma Barker
    Pages 85-105

  6. Three Steps in Wilks Work: From Theory to Resources to Practice

    • Gregory Grefenstette
    Pages 107-118

  7. Preference Syntagmatics

    • Patrick Hanks
    Pages 119-135

  8. Historical Ontologies

    • Nancy Ide, David Woolner
    Pages 137-152

  9. An Amorphous Object Must be Cut by a Blunt Tool

    • Makoto Nagao
    Pages 153-158

  10. Homer, the Author of The Iliad and the Computational-Linguistic Turn

    • Sergei Nirenburg
    Pages 159-193

  11. Philosophical Engineering

    • Nigel Shadbolt
    Pages 195-207

  12. Machine Translation and the World Wide Web

    • Harold Somers
    Pages 209-233

  13. Semantic Primitives: The Tip of the Iceberg

    • Karen Spärck Jones
    Pages 235-253

  14. Molecules, Meaning and Post-Modernist Semantics

    • John Tait, Michael Oakes
    Pages 255-279
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It has been said of the brothers Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt that between them they were the last people to have known all that there was to know, to have had a mastery of the best that contemporary science knew and to have made significant contributions, to be that rare thing Renaissance men. In a world of ever-greater specialisation, especially in academia, the ability to cross intellectual boundaries, bring together ideas beyond the confines of one’s narrow discipline and yet make significant intellectual contributions has become ever rarer. In bringing together this celebration of Professor Yorick Wilks, it has been the ambition of the editors to provide the reader with a taste, an inkling of that which cannot be conveyed on the written page but only in the person of Yorick. He is a renaissance man in an age where such concepts have been forgotten. He is a bridge between a bewildering variety of contemporary research, and simultaneously a link between some of the most advanced thought in the broadly interpreted field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the long tradition of philosophy, literature, and general intellectual creativity that have fundamentally informed his academic research. This comes across in part when one considers his career, more so when one reads his writings but is most apparent in person. Modern scientists have become specialised, experts in only one specific domain.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

    Khurshid Ahmad

  • University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Christopher Brewster, Mark Stevenson

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