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Title: Language, Cohesion and Form 
Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org
	
Author: Margaret Masterman
Editor: Yorick Wilks

Paperback: ISBN:  9780521129633 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9780521129633 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 39.99


Abstract:

Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced book.

Margaret Masterman was a pioneer in the field of computational linguistics.
Working in the earliest days of language processing by computer, she
believed that meaning, not grammar, was the key to understanding languages,
and that machines could determine the meaning of sentences. She was able,
even on simple machines, to undertake sophisticated experiments in machine
translation, and carried out important work on the use of semantic codings
and thesauri to determine the meaning structure of texts. This volume
brings together Masterman's groundbreaking papers for the first time.
Through his insightful commentaries, Yorick Wilks argues that Masterman
came close to developing a computational theory of language meaning based
on the ideas of Wittgenstein, and shows the importance of her work in the
philosophy of science and the nature of iconic languages. Of key interest
in computational linguistics and artificial intelligence, it will remind
scholars of Masterman's significant contribution to the field. 



Introduction; 

Part I. Basic Forms for Language Structure: 
1. Words; 
2. Fans and heads; 
3. Classification, concept-formation and language; 

Part II. The Thesaurus as a Tool for Machine Translation: 
4. The potentialities of a mechanical thesaurus; 
5. What is a thesaurus?; 

Part III. Experiments in Machine Translation: 
6. 'Agricola in curvo terram dimovit aratro'; 
7. Mechanical pidgin translation; 
8. Translation; 

Part IV. Phrasings, Breath Groups and Text Processing: 
9. Commentary on the guberina hypothesis; 
10. Semantic algorithms; 

Part V. Metaphor, Analogy and the Philosophy of Science: 
11. Braithwaite and Kuhn: analogy-clusters within and without
hypothetico-deductive systems in science; 

Bibliography of the scientific works of Margaret Masterman; Other references. 


Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     History of Linguistics
                     Philosophy of Language


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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