Language, Cohesion and Form

Informationen zum Autor Yorick Wilks is Professor in the Department of Computer Science! University of Sheffield. Klappentext This volume brings together for the first time the papers of Margaret Masterman, a pioneer in the field of computational linguistics. Zusammenfassung This volume brings together for the first time the papers of Margaret Masterman! a pioneer in the field of computational linguistics. With commentaries by Yorick Wilks - also a leading expert in the field - it brings into focus her influential work in machine translation! the philosophy of science! and artificial intelligence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Basic Forms for Language Structure: 1. Words; 2. Fans and heads; 3. Classification, concept-formation and language; Part II. The Thesaurus as a Tool for Machine Translation: 4. The potentialities of a mechanical thesaurus; 5. What is a thesaurus?; Part III. Experiments in Machine Translation: 6. 'Agricola in curvo terram dimovit aratro'; 7. Mechanical pidgin translation; 8. Translation; Part IV. Phrasings, Breath Groups and Text Processing: 9. Commentary on the guberina hypothesis; 10. Semantic algorithms; Part V. Metaphor, Analogy and the Philosophy of Science: 11. Braithwaite and Kuhn: analogy-clusters within and without hypothetico-deductive systems in science; Bibliography of the scientific works of Margaret Masterman; Other references.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Masterman
• Assisted by: Steven Bird (Editor), Branimir Boguraev (Editor), Yorick Wilks (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.01.2005
• EAN: 9780521454896
• ISBN: 978-0-521-45489-6
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Studies in Natural Language Pr
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT