Livre: Modelling Language

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:26:11 +0200
From: Sylviane CARDEY <sylviane.cardey at univ-fcomte.fr>
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Modelling Language
Sylviane Cardey
Institut universitaire de France and Université de Franche-Comté

http://www.benjamins.com/#catalog/books/nlp.10/main

In response to the need for reliable results from natural language
processing, this book presents an original way of decomposing a
language(s) in a microscopic manner by means of intra/inter-language
norms and divergences, going progressively from languages as systems to
the linguistic, mathematical and computational models, which being based
on a constructive approach are inherently traceable. Languages are
described with their elements aggregating or repelling each other to
form viable interrelated micro-systems. The abstract model, which
contrary to the current state of the art works in intension, is
exploitable for all sorts of applications where only the elements which
are useful are assembled in the micro-systems needed to solve the
problem in hand. Numerous definitions, schemata and examples involving
many languages make the book accessible to students as well as academics
and industrial researchers looking for new theories and methodologies
for representations and problem solving wherever language and quality
meet.

Table of contents
Preface
Prologue
Introduction
Part 1. System, language and its components
Chapter 1.1 The concept of system
Chapter 1.2 Language as a system
Chapter 1.3 The system’s microcomponents
Chapter 1.4 Syntactic analysis
Chapter 1.5 Semantics
Chapter 1.6 Norm in language
Part 2. Modelling the norms
Chapter 2.1 Model
Chapter 2.2 Our model
Part 3. Methodologies and applications
Chapter 3.1 Grammar checkers
Chapter 3.2 Part of speech tagger
Chapter 3.3 Sense mining
Chapter 3.4 Controlled languages
Chapter 3.5 Intralanguage ambiguity
Chapter 3.6 MultiCoDiCT
Chapter 3.7 Controlled language and machine translation
Chapter 3.8 Oral
Conclusion
Epilogue
References
Index

"The book presents a very fresh, excellent, persuasive new approach to
the analysis and generation of languages. Languages are viewed as
systems as well as their lexicomorphosyntactic components. The
linguistic and mathematical models are convincing and accompanied with
good examples and a variety of applications such as grammar checking,
part of speech tagging, sense mining, controlled language, machine
translation, and also oral speech processing. The author shows that this
model is applicable to any language and examples are given on French,
English, German, Spanish, Arabic, Malay, Chinese, Thai, etc. The book’s
topdown model based approach is particularly attractive for
computational linguists looking for reliable results and is strongly
recommended to students who are interested in linguistics and natural
language processing as well as professionals in the above mentioned wide
application areas."
Makoto Nagao, Japan

"S. Cardey presents an original approach to the scientific analysis of
language grounded in a firm understanding of previous theories and based
on the interaction of lexis, morphology and syntax. Natural language is
modeled within a framework that draws on logic, set theory and the
theory of algorithms, thus bridging linguistic theory and formal
mathematical analysis. The model developed here will prove valuable for
theoretical linguists studying typologically diverse languages as well
as for a wide range of natural language engineers facing challenging
applications such as semantic data mining and machine translation."
Christiane D. Fellbaum, Princeton University

[Natural Language Processing, 10] 2013. xi, 194 pp. Publishing status:
Available

Hardbound - Available
ISBN 978 90 272 4996 8 | EUR 90.00 | USD 135.00
e-Book ¬ Forthcoming
ISBN 978 90 272 7208 9 | EUR 90.00 | USD 135.00


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