[Corpora-List] new book

[rodolfo delmonte]

Dear colleagues, hoping to make a useful thing, I attach here below the  
announcement of my new book.
R.Delmonte

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ANNOUNCING A NEW TITLE FROM NOVA SCIENCE PUBLISHERS, INC

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTIC TEXT PROCESSING:
Logical Form,Semantic Interpretation, Discourse Relations and Question  
Answering

RODOLFO DELMONTE
(Dipartimento Scienze del Linguaggio, Univ. Ca' Foscari, Venezia, Italy)

2007.  ISBN: 1-60021-700-1.  $89.00 Hardcover

The topic of this book is the theoretical foundations of a theory LSLT  
- Lexical
Semantic Language Theory and its implementation in a system for text  
analysis and understanding. There are two main tenets of the theory  
which are supporting the construction of the system: one is that it is  
possible to reduce access to domain world knowledge by means of  
contextual reasoning, i.e. reasoning triggered independently by  
contextual or linguistic features of the text under analysis. In other  
words, it adopts what could be termed the Shallow Processing
Hypothesis: access to WordNet is reduced and substituted whenever links  
are
missing through inferences on the basis of hand-coded lexical and  
grammatical knowledge given to the system, which are worked out in a  
fully general manner. The purpose of the book is to present in detail  
the scientific foundations of the architecture and components of a (yet  
to be) implemented system for text understanding and generation, and at  
the same time to discuss critically some of the possible applications  
in real world domains in which such an approach
could be fruitful.

Table of Contents:
Introduction

Chapter I
Semantic Interpretation and Logical Form

Chapter II
Discourse Model and Inferential Processes

Chapter III
Interpreting Spatiotemporal Locations

CHAPTER IV
Discourse Relations and Rhetorical Structure

CHAPTER V
Discourse Relations and Causality

CHAPTER VI
Text Generation

CHAPTER VII
Linguistically-Based Semantic Evaluation for Text Entailment

CHAPTER VIII
Reasoning From Discourse Model For Question Answering And Text  
Paraphrasing

Tables and Figures Index

Bibliography

Index




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