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- Presents the conceptual and formal tools required for building semantic systems capable of understanding text
- Applications of the approach include information extraction, question answering, and the Semantic Web
- Appropriate for computer science and engineering students
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The focus of this textbook is the meaning of linguistic expressions, typically full sentences and longer texts. The author describes the conceptual and formal tools required for building semantic systems capable of understanding text, both for specific tasks such as information extraction and question answering and for broad undertakings such as the Semantic Web. The goal here is to present the fundamental ideas that working systems rest on, and this book is aimed primarily at Computer Science or Engineering students interested in developing semantic systems. The ideal reader is a hacker, a person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system.
Reviews
“This textbook distinguishes itself from other books on semantics by its interdisciplinarity: it presents the perspectives of linguistics, computer science, philosophy and cognitive science. I expect big changes in the field in coming years, so that a broad coverage of foundations is the right approach to equipping students with the knowledge they need to tackle semantics now and in the future." [Hinrich Schütze, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München]
“Very few people are aware of this elegant formalism of Eilenberg machines. People keep teaching presentations of finite state machines as kludgy imperative devices with tapes and reading heads instead of using relational notions. I have respect for Kornai's expertise on many topics, his sharp observations, the originality of the presentation, and its vividness.” [Gérard Huet, INRIA, Institut de France, Académie des Sciences]
Authors and Affiliations
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SZTAKI, Institute of Computer Science, Budapest, Hungary
András Kornai
About the author
András Kornai is a mathematical linguist. He is a professor in the Department of Algebra of Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Chief Scientist at SecondMind Labs, and a senior research adviser at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Computer and Automation Research Institute. His research interests include all mathematical aspects of natural language processing, speech recognition, and OCR. His homepage is at https://kornai.com/
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Semantics
Authors: András Kornai
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65645-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65644-1Published: 19 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65645-8Published: 09 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 298
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Logic, Cognitive Psychology