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Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 11:20:21
From: Helen van der Stelt [Helen.vanderStelt at springer.com]
Subject: Bayesian Natural Language Semantics and Pragmatics: Zeevat, Schmitz (eds.)

 


Title: Bayesian Natural Language Semantics and Pragmatics 
Series Title: Language, Cognition, and Mind  

Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: Springer
	   http://www.springer.com
	

Book URL: http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319170633 


Editor: Henk Zeevat
Editor: Hans-Christian Schmitz

Hardback: ISBN:  9783319170633 Pages: 246 Price: Europe EURO 99.99


Abstract:

The contributions in this volume focus on the Bayesian interpretation of
natural languages, which is widely used in areas of artificial intelligence,
cognitive science, and computational linguistics. This is the first volume to
take up topics in Bayesian Natural Language Interpretation and make proposals
based on information theory, probability theory, and related fields. The
methodologies offered here extend to the target semantic and pragmatic
analyses of computational natural language interpretation. Bayesian approaches
to natural language semantics and pragmatics are based on methods from signal
processing and the causal Bayesian models pioneered by especially Pearl. In
signal processing, the Bayesian method finds the most probable interpretation
by finding the one that maximizes the product of the prior probability and the
likelihood of the interpretation. It thus stresses the importance of a
production model for interpretation as in Grice’s contributions to pragmatics
or in interpretation by abduction.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Computational Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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