22.4681, Books: Computational Linguistics/Linguistic Theories: Chiang

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Subject: 22.4681, Books: Computational Linguistics/Linguistic Theories: Chiang

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Date: 23-Nov-2011
From: Jolanda Voogd [Jolanda.Voogd at springer.com]
Subject: Grammars for Language and Genes: Chiang

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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:46:19
From: Jolanda Voogd [Jolanda.Voogd at springer.com]
Subject: Grammars for Language and Genes: Chiang

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Title: Grammars for Language and Genes 
Subtitle: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations 
Series Title: Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Springer
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Book URL: http://www.springer.com/computer/theoretical+computer+science/book/978-3-642-20443-2?changeHeader 

Author: David Chiang

Hardback: ISBN:  9783642204432 Pages: 120 Price: Europe EURO 85

Abstract:

Grammars are gaining importance in natural language processing and 
computational biology as a means of encoding theories and structuring 
algorithms. But one serious obstacle to applications of grammars is that 
formal language theory traditionally classifies grammars according to their 
weak generative capacity (what sets of strings they generate) and tends to 
ignore strong generative capacity (what sets of structural descriptions they 
generate) even though the latter is more relevant to applications. 

This book develops and demonstrates a framework for carrying out rigorous 
comparisons of grammar formalisms in terms of their usefulness for 
applications, focusing on three areas of application: statistical parsing, 
natural language translation, and biological sequence analysis. These results 
should pave the way for theoretical research to pursue results that are more 
directed towards applications, and for practical research to explore the use of 
advanced grammar formalisms more easily.

Content Level: Research 

Keywords: biological sequence analysis - formal grammars - language 
translation - statistical parsing - strong generative capacity 

Related subjects: Artificial Intelligence - Bioinformatics - Theoretical 
Computer Science 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories

Written In: English  (eng)

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