Model Generation for Natural Language Interpretation and Analysis

Mathematical theorem proving has undergone an impressive development during the last two decades, resulting in a variety of powerful systems for applications in mathematical deduction and knowledge processing. Natural language processing has become a topic of outstanding relevance in information technology, mainly due to the explosive growth of the Web, where by far the largest part of information is encoded in natural language documents.
This monograph focuses on the development of inference tools tailored to applications in natural language processing by demonstrating how the model generation paradigm can be used as a framework for the support of specific tasks in natural language interpretation and natural language based inference in a natural way.
The book appears at a pivotal moment, when much attention is being paid to the task of adding a semantic layer to the Web, and representation and processing of natural language based semantic information pops up as a primary requirement for further technological progress.

List of contents

1 Motivation.- 1 Motivation.- I Logics.- 2 Model Generation.- 3 Higher-Order Model Generation.- 4 Minimal Model Generation.- II Linguistics.- 5 The Analysis of Definites.- 6 Reciprocity.- 7 Abduction.- 8 Implementation.- 9 Conclusion.- A Some Example Problems.- References and Index.

Summary

Mathematical theorem proving has undergone an impressive development during the last two decades, resulting in a variety of powerful systems for applications in mathematical deduction and knowledge processing. Natural language processing has become a topic of outstanding relevance in information technology, mainly due to the explosive growth of the Web, where by far the largest part of information is encoded in natural language documents.
This monograph focuses on the development of inference tools tailored to applications in natural language processing by demonstrating how the model generation paradigm can be used as a framework for the support of specific tasks in natural language interpretation and natural language based inference in a natural way.
The book appears at a pivotal moment, when much attention is being paid to the task of adding a semantic layer to the Web, and representation and processing of natural language based semantic information pops up as a primary requirement for further technological progress.

Product details

• Authors: Karsten Konrad
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.03.2004
• EAN: 9783540210696
• ISBN: 978-3-540-21069-6
• No. of pages: 174
• Weight: 288 g
• Illustrations: XIV, 174 p.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; B, Künstliche Intelligenz, Artificial Intelligence, Theoretische Informatik, Semantic Web, computer science, Computer Science, general, Natural Language Processing, Mathematical theory of computation, Mathematical logic, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages, Natural language & machine translation, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural language processing (Computer science), Formal Languages and Automata Theory, Model Theory, proving, natural language, Theorem Proving, natural language interpretation