30.4511, Books: Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing II: Bender, Lascarides

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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 19:13:49
From: Bebe Barrow [barrow at morganclaypool.com]
Subject: Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing II: Bender, Lascarides

 


Title: Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing II 
Subtitle: 100 Essentials from Semantics and Pragmatics 
Series Title: Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies edited by Graeme Hirst  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
	   http://www.morganclaypool.com
	

Book URL: https://www.morganclaypoolpublishers.com/catalog_Orig/product_info.php?products_id=1451 


Author: Emily M. Bender
Author: Alex Lascarides

Electronic: ISBN:  9781681730745 Pages: 268 Price: U.S. $ 71.96
Hardback: ISBN:  9781681736211 Pages: 268 Price: U.S. $ 109.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781681730738 Pages: 268 Price: U.S. $ 89.95


Abstract:

Meaning is a fundamental concept in Natural Language Processing (NLP), in the
tasks of both Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Natural Language
Generation (NLG). This is because the aims of these fields are to build
systems that understand what people mean when they speak or write, and that
can produce linguistic strings that successfully express to people the
intended content. In order for NLP to scale beyond partial, task-specific
solutions, researchers in these fields must be informed by what is known about
how humans use language to express and understand communicative intents. The
purpose of this book is to present a selection of useful information about
semantics and pragmatics, as understood in linguistics, in a way that's
accessible to and useful for NLP practitioners with minimal (or even no) prior
training in linguistics.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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