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Yorick Wilks is a central figure in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. His influence has extends to many areas of these fields and includes contributions to Machine Translation, word sense disambiguation, dialogue modeling and Information Extraction. This book celebrates the work of Yorick Wilks from the perspective of his peers. It consists of original chapters each of which analyses an aspect of his work and links it to current thinking in that area. His work has spanned over four decades but is shown to be pertinent to recent developments in language processing such as the Semantic Web. This volume forms a two-part set together with Words and Intelligence I, Selected Works by Yorick Wilks, by the same editors.
List of contents
Introduction / Khurshid Ahmad, Christopher Brewster, and Mark Stevenson
Mark Maybury / Yorick Alexander Wilks: A Meaningful Journey
John A Barnden / Metaphor, Semantic Preferences and Context-Sensitivity
Nicoletta Calzolari / Towards a new generation of Language Resources in the Semantic Web vision
Robert Gaizauskas, Horacio Saggion, and Emma Barker / Information Access and Natural Language Processing: A Stimulating Dialogue
Gregory Grefenstette / Three steps in Wilks work: From theory to resources to practice
Patrick Hanks / Preference Syntagmatics
Nancy Ide and David Woolner / Historical Ontologies
Makoto Nagao / An Amorphous Object Must Be Cut By A Blunt Tool
Sergei Nirenburg / Homer, the Author of The Iliad and the Computational-Linguistic Turn
Nigel Shadbolt / Philosophical Engineering
Harold Somers / Machine Translation and the World Wide Web
Karen Spärck Jones / Semantic primitives: the tip of the iceberg
John Tait and Michael Oakes / Molecules, Meaning and Post-Modernist Semantics
About the author
Mark Stevenson, geboren 1971 in den Midlands in England, führt als Naturwissenschaftler und Stand-up-Comedian gewissermaßen zwei Leben: Tagsüber erarbeitet er Lernkonzepte für Museen und schreibt als Wissenschaftsjournalist u. a. für The Times und The Economist. Abends steht er auf der Bühne und erklärt dem staunenden Publikum, was für unglaubliche Optionen wir in Zukunft haben werden. Mark Stevenson lebt und arbeitet in London.
