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Computation of Language: An Essay on Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics in Natural Man-Machine Communication - Hardcover
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The study of linguistics has been forever changed by the advent of the computer. Not only does the machine permit the processing of enormous quantities of text thereby securing a better empirical foundation for conclusions-but also, since it is a modelling device, the machine allows the implementation of theories of grammar and other kinds of language processing. Models can have very unexpected properties both good and bad-and it is only through extensive tests that the value of a model can be properly assessed. The computer revolution has been going on for many years, and its importance for linguistics was recognized early on, but the more recent spread of personal workstations has made it a reality that can no longer be ignored by anyone in the subject. The present essay, in particular, could never have been written without the aid of the computer. I know personally from conversations and consultations with the author over many months how the book has changed. If he did not have at his command a powerful typesetting program, he would not have been able to see how his writing looked and exactly how it had to be revised and amplified. Even more significant for the evolution of the linguistic theory is the easy testing of examples made possible by the implementation of the parser and the computer-held lexicon. Indeed, the rule set and lexicon grew substantially after the successes of the early implementations created the desire to incorporate more linguistic phenomena.
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This book analyzes the functioning of natural language in communication. The resulting system, called left-associative grammar (LA-grammar), incorporates the basic input-output conditions of speech as (i) a strictly time-linear (left-associative) derivation order, and (ii) a decidable, bidirectional mapping between the surface of sentences and their meaning. The new algorithm of LA-grammar computes "possible continuations" in contrast to most contemporary systems (e.g., phrase structure grammar), which are based on "possible substitutions." The regular, context-free, and context-sensitive languages are reconstructed in LA-grammar, and questions of generative power, decidability, and computational complexity are explored in detail. It is proven that LA-grammar generates all - and only - the recursive languages, and that LA-grammar is more efficient computationally than corresponding substitution systems. The linguistic, mathematical, and computational analysis of natural (and formal) languages is followed by a philosophical discussion of communication. Topics are the theory of signs; the nature of reference; the role of ontology, truth, and the metalanguage; the nature of presuppositions and vagueness; the purpose of logic in meaning analysis; and the function of a semantically interpreted language in a speaking robot. An appendix illustrates the application of LA-grammar to natural language parsing with a large fragment of semantically interpreted English, implemented in LISP. As a comprehensive theory of grammar and the foundations of communication, this book is relevant for all applications of natural language processing, such as information retrieval, database interfaces, content analysis, database maintenance and up-scaling, dialog systems, machine translation, and foreign language teaching.
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- VerlagSpringer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
- Erscheinungsdatum1989
- ISBN 10 3540508821
- ISBN 13 9783540508823
- EinbandTapa dura
- SpracheEnglisch
- Anzahl der Seiten444
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Computation of Language: An Essay on Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics in Natural Man-Machine Communication
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 1989
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