Words and Intelligence II

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

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.

• Artificial
• Dialogue
• Disambiguation
• Machine
• Translation
• Wilks
• artificial intelligence
• machine translation
• natural language processing
• ontology
• semantics

• Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

  Khurshid Ahmad

• University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

  Christopher Brewster, Mark Stevenson