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Alastair Butler - Linguistic Expressions and Semantic Processing: A Practical Approach - 9783319188294 - V9783319188294
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Linguistic Expressions and Semantic Processing: A Practical Approach

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Description for Linguistic Expressions and Semantic Processing: A Practical Approach Hardcover. Num Pages: 172 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFG; CFX; UYA; UYQL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 245 x 15. Weight in Grams: 446.

This book introduces formal semantics techniques for a natural language processing audience. Methods discussed involve: (i) the denotational techniques used in model-theoretic semantics, which make it possible to determine whether a linguistic expression is true or false with respect to some model of the way things happen to be; and (ii) stages of interpretation, i.e., ways to arrive at meanings by evaluating and converting source linguistic expressions, possibly with respect to contexts, into output (logical) forms that could be used with (i).

The book demonstrates that the methods allow wide coverage without compromising the quality of semantic analysis. Access to ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer
Condition
New
Number of Pages
172
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319188294
SKU
V9783319188294
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Alastair Butler
Alastair Butler is a Researcher based at the Center for the Advancement of Higher Education, Tohoku University, Japan. Before moving to Japan, he was a postdoctoral researcher first in the Institute for Logic Language and Communication at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands and secondly in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore. He obtained ... Read more

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