English for the Computer - The Susanne Corpus and Analytic Scheme

Zusatztext Many of its papers survey a wide range of different approaches and issues in computational linguistics, picking interesting ideas from here and there...Sampson's book and associated computer files are indeed meeting a need. The material is already widely used and often mentioned by researchers in NLP. Klappentext Computer processing of natural language is a burgeoning field, but until now there has been no agreement of a standardized classification of the diverse structural elements that occur in real-life language material. This book attempts to define a 'Linnaean taxonomy' for the English language: an annotation scheme, the SUSANNE scheme, which yields a labelled constituency structure for any string of English, comprehensively identifying all of its surface and logical structural properties. The structure is specified with sufficient rigour that analysts working independently must produce identical annotations for a given example. The scheme is based on large samples of real-life use of British and American written and spoken English. The book also describes the SUSANNE electronic corpus of English which is annotated in accordance with the scheme. It is freely available as a research resource to anyone working at a computer connected to Internet, and since 1992 has come into widespread use in academic and commercial research environments on four continents. Zusammenfassung Provides a definition of a scheme which would provide a standardized classification of the structural elements of language. The text describes the SUSANNE analytic scheme, which specifies a unique annotation describing all of the structural properties of the English language.

Product details

• Authors: Geoffrey Sampson, Geoffrey (Chairman of Computer Science an Sampson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.02.1995
• EAN: 9780198240235
• ISBN: 978-0-19-824023-5
• No. of pages: 508
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Natural language & machine translation, Natural language and machine translation