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Paperback. Discusses Davidsonian and neo-Davidsonian event analyses of verbs and verbal roles. This book also discusses theories of semantic plurality, focussing on the analysis of collective, distributive and cumulative readings. It develops a neo-Davidsonian theory of events and plurality, a theory of event-maximalization, and a theory of scopal relations. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 396 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 559.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792365693
- ISBN
- 9780792365693
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€ 72.09
€ 72.09
Hardback. Addresses themes such as techniques for the alignment of parallel texts at various levels such as sentence, clause, and word; the use of parallel texts in fields as diverse as translation, lexicography, and information retrieval; and available corpus resources and the evaluation of alignment methods. Editor(s): Veronis, Jean. Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology. Num Pages: 403 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 785.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 403
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792365464
- ISBN
- 9780792365464
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€ 257.79
€ 257.79
Hardback. This work offers a survey of methods and techniques for structuring, acquiring and maintaining lexical resources for speech and language processing. The first chapter offers a survey of computational lexicography, with further chapters providing greater detail. Editor(s): Eynde, Frank Von; Gibbon, Dafydd. Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF; UYQL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 620.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792363682
- ISBN
- 9780792363682
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€ 200.14
€ 200.14
Hardback. Represents a case study in the study of the prosody and syntax interactions. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADT; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 520.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792362401
- ISBN
- 9780792362401
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€ 132.38
€ 132.38
Hardback. Develops core elements of the Wittgenstein's conception of philosophy, putting them to work to 'dissolve' the problem, proving it ill-framed by clarifying the questions posing it and breaking the spell of mistaken analogies that inform it. This book is useful to professional philosophers and advanced undergraduates alike. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 482.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792361244
- ISBN
- 9780792361244
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€ 131.78
€ 131.78
Hardback. A collection of papers written by researchers in the field of computational semantics. It is suitable for those linguists, computer scientists, and logicians who want to know more about the algorithmic realization of meaning in natural language and about what is happening in this field of research. Editor(s): Bunt, Harry; Muskens, Reinhard. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 369 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG; UYQL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 703.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 369
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792361084
- ISBN
- 9780792361084
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€ 201.34
€ 201.34
Hardback. The collection of papers in this volume contributes to the crosslinguistic comparison of mechanisms of human sentence processing. The topics covered are incremental structure assembly, on-line ambiguity resolution, and phonological, contextual, and working memory aspects of reanalysis. Editor(s): Hemforth, Barbara; Konieczny, Lars. Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACG; CFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 653.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792361046
- ISBN
- 9780792361046
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€ 200.59
€ 200.59
Hardback. Austronesian languages have long raised questions for generative theories of syntax and morphology. The papers in this volume encompass some of these traditional questions and place them in newer theoretical contexts. Editor(s): Paul, Ileana; Phillips, V.; Travis, Lisa (Dept. of Linguistics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada). Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2PG; CFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 576.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 265
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792360681
- ISBN
- 9780792360681
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€ 133.16
€ 133.16
Hardback. Most linguistic theories assume that each grammatical relation is established in a unique structural configuration. This book argues for a more flexible approach on the basis of conceptual considerations and data taken mostly, but not exclusively, from the Germanic languages. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1230.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792360582
- ISBN
- 9780792360582
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€ 132.89
€ 132.89
Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora
. Ed(S): Armstrong, Susan; Church, Kenneth W....
Hardback. Intended for researchers who want to keep abreast of developments in corpus-based natural language processing. This work captures the essence of a series of successful workshops. It contains papers that cover a range of research topics in this field including part-of-speech tagging, word sense disambiguation, parsing on real-life texts, and more. Editor(s): Armstrong, Susan; Church, Kenneth W.; Isabelle, Pierre; Manzi, Sandra; Tzoukermann, Evelyne; Yarowsky, David (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA). Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF; UYQL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 636.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 305
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792360551
- ISBN
- 9780792360551
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€ 200.42
€ 200.42
Hardback. This text provides a detailed analysis of two major aspects - glottalization and nasalization - of the phonology and phonetics of Coatzospan Mixtec, as well as an overview of the segmental phonology of the language. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2JN; CFA; CFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 631.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 307
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792360346
- ISBN
- 9780792360346
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€ 200.26
€ 200.26
Hardback. This work investigates the phenomenon of verb-second in Kashmiri, a language outside the Germanic family, unique in that it exhibits both the German/Dutch type of verb-second as well as the Yiddish/Icelandic type. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2BMK; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 615.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792360339
- ISBN
- 9780792360339
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€ 200.09
€ 200.09
Hardback. One of the most basic themes in the philosophy of language is referential uptake, the question of what counts as properly 'understanding' a referring act in communication. This work argues that traditional proposals fail to account for success in referential communication. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 1050.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792359746
- ISBN
- 9780792359746
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€ 131.69
€ 131.69
Hardback. An in-depth discussion of the field of syntactic wordclass tagging - the annotation of the words in a text with tags indicating their syntactic properties. Represented are the viewpoints of the two main groups interested in tagging: the users of tagged text and the developers of tagging software. Editor(s): Halteren, Hans van. Series: Text , Speech & Language Technology S. Num Pages: 334 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 165 x 28. Weight in Grams: 694.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792358961
- ISBN
- 9780792358961
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€ 200.93
€ 200.93
Hardback. The nature of truth is one of the central philosophical problems of all time. This work draws together contributions from analytic philosophers who approach the problem within the context established by the results of Alfred Tarski. It is devoted to a reconsideration of some of the classical ideas about truth. Editor(s): Peregrin, Jaroslav. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 505.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792358657
- ISBN
- 9780792358657
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€ 132.17
€ 132.17
Hardback. Focuses on the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Information Retrieval. This book discusses research systems and evaluations that represent the avenues where the impact of NLP technologies in information retrieval is being explored, and is a useful reference to those in the field of Natural Language Processing, and Information Retrieval. Editor(s): Strzalkowski, Tomek. Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology. Num Pages: 384 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF; UYQL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 23. Weight in Grams: 752.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792356851
- ISBN
- 9780792356851
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Condition: New
€ 135.73
€ 135.73
Hardback. This volume is a study of the foundations of model-theoretic semantics. Its central thesis is that one does not need to assume a perfect structural fit between languages and their models in order to characterize the basic semantic notions. Series: Topoi Library. Num Pages: 146 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 169 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 146
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792356295
- ISBN
- 9780792356295
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€ 130.79
€ 130.79
Paperback. Explores important, but overlooked questions in on-line sentence interpretation and attempts to erect some of the scaffolding for an eventual theory of sentence interpretation. Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics. Num Pages: 174 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 600.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792356028
- ISBN
- 9780792356028
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Condition: New
€ 67.91
€ 67.91
The New Theory of Reference. Kripke, Marcus, and Its Origins.
. Ed(S): Humphreys, Paul W.; Fetzer, James H.
Paperback. Deals with the debate over the origins of the New Theory of Reference. This book discusses who was responsible for the ideas that Saul Kripke presented in his "Naming and Necessity". It also discusses the contributions of philosophers such as Follesdal, Geach, Hintikka, Plantinga, and Stig Kanger to the development of modal semantics. Editor(s): Humphreys, Paul W.; Fetzer, James H. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 594.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792355786
- ISBN
- 9780792355786
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Condition: New
€ 199.94
€ 199.94
Hardback. Via a number of articles, this book presents a survey and a set of projects in computational lexical semantics. Topics include verb semantic classifications, relations between syntax and semantics, Wordnet for verbs, multilinguism, lexical knowledge bases and lexical acquisition. Editor(s): Saint-Dizier, Patrick. Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology. Num Pages: 379 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF; UYQL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 724.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 379
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792354994
- ISBN
- 9780792354994
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 201.68
€ 201.68