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- Includes the full code of computer programs for a ‘hands on’ experience in the techniques of formal semantics
- Demonstrates how techniques of formal semantics can be made to scale to unrestricted natural language data
- Introduces the reader to prerequisites for formal semantics and to predicate language expressions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book introduces formal semantics techniques for a natural language processing audience. Methods discussed involve: (i) the denotational techniques used in model-theoretic semantics, which make it possible to determine whether a linguistic expression is true or false with respect to some model of the way things happen to be; and (ii) stages of interpretation, i.e., ways to arrive at meanings by evaluating and converting source linguistic expressions, possibly with respect to contexts, into output (logical) forms that could be used with (i).
The book demonstrates that the methods allow wide coverage without compromising the quality of semantic analysis. Access to unrestricted, robust and accurate semantic analysis is widely regarded as an essential component for improving natural language processing tasks, such as: recognizing textual entailment, information extraction, summarization, automatic reply, and machine translation.
Authors and Affiliations
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Center for the Advancement of Higher Education, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Alastair Butler
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Linguistic Expressions and Semantic Processing
Book Subtitle: A Practical Approach
Authors: Alastair Butler
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18830-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-18829-4Published: 09 June 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38610-2Published: 17 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-18830-0Published: 26 May 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 172
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages, Semantics, Theoretical Linguistics