Computational and corpus linguistics

Communication is one of the most challenging human phenomena, and the same is true of its paradigmatic verbal realization as a dialogue.

If we consider how theoretical operations belonging to the methodological inventory of linguistics are carried out (i.

This book is an introduction to the statistical analysis of word frequency distributions, intended for linguists, psycholinguistics, and researchers work- ing in the field of quantitative stylistics and anyone interested in quantitative aspects of lexical structure.

Linguists and engineers in Natural Language Processing tend to use electronic corpora more and more.

Recent Advances in Example-Based Machine Translation is of relevance to researchers and program developers in the field of Machine Translation and especially Example-Based Machine Translation, bilingual text processing and cross-linguistic information retrieval.

This book is a collection of papers written by outstanding researchers in the newly emerging field of computational semantics.

Geert-Jan Kruijff & Richard T.

The origins of this book arise from the highly successful second SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue that was held in September 2001 in con- junction with Eurospeech 2001.

The aim of the first volume of the present Handbook of Philosophical Logic is essentially two-fold: First of all, the chapters in this volume should provide a concise overview of the main parts of classical logic.

In almost all principled accounts of questions questions are related to the corresponding answers.

This volume presents a number of systems of logic which can be considered as alternatives to classical logic.

This collection of papers stems originally from a conference on Property Theory, Type Theory and Semantics held in Amherst on March 13-16 1986.

usually called the classical (scientific) attitude (according to which there is a dichotomy between nature and cognition) and suggestions for better understanding of their mutual encroach- ment.

Elementary set theory accustoms the students to mathematical abstraction, includes the standard constructions of relations, functions, and orderings, and leads to a discussion of the various orders of infinity.

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Parsing with Principles and Classes of Information presents a parser based on current principle-based linguistic theories for English.

Computational Psycholinguistics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Language investigates the architecture and mechanisms which underlie the human capacity to process language.

presupposition fails, we now give a short introduction into Unification Grammar.

conceptual, realist) theories of predication.

- Donation refusal is high in all the regions of Argentina.

This book is a collection of papers by leading researchers in computational semantics.

This collection of papers takes linguists to the leading edge of techniques in generative lexicon theory, the linguistic composition methodology that arose from the imperative to provide a compositional semantics for the contextual modifications in meaning that emerge in real linguistic usage.

This volume maps the watershed areas between two 'holy grails' of computer science: the identification and interpretation of affect - including sentiment and mood.

Syntax-Based Collocation Extraction is the first book to offer a comprehensive, up-to-date review of the theoretical and applied work on word collocations.

Computer parsing technology, which breaks down complex linguistic structures into their constituent parts, is a key research area in the automatic processing of human language.

The volume "e;Genres on the Web"e; has been designed for a wide audience, from the expert to the novice.

In this book, a novel approach that combines speech-based emotion recognition with adaptive human-computer dialogue modeling is described.

This book takes stock of current research into computer learner corpora conducted both by ELT and SLA specialists.

Metaphor is a topical issue across a number of disciplines, wherever researchers are concerned with how speakers and writers package and process messages.

This volume brings together selected and revised papers from the international conference on "e;Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing"e;, held in Borovets, Bulgaria, in September 2005.

This volume brings together revised versions of a selection of papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on "e;Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing"e; (RANLP) held in Borovets, Bulgaria, 27-29 September 2007.

The present volume includes a selection of twenty-one peer-reviewed and revised papers from the 37th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at the University of Pittsburgh in 2007.

English causative constructions with cause, get, have and make are often mistakenly presented as (quasi-)synonymous and more or less interchangeable.

The eleven contributions to this volume, written by expert corpus linguists, tackle corpora from a wide range of perspectives and aim to shed light on the numerous linguistic and pedagogical uses to which corpora can be put.

This volume brings together revised versions of a selection of papers presented at the Second International Conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing” (RANLP’97) held in Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, September 1997.

Construction Grammar is enthusiastically embraced by a growing group of linguists who find it a natural way to formulate their analyses.

This volume is based on contributions from the First International Conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing” (RANLP’95) held in Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, 14-16 September 1995.

This book describes new methodological and technological approaches to corpus building and presents recent research based on the Norwegian Newspaper Corpus.

This book brings together a variety of approaches to English corpus linguistics and shows how corpus methodologies can contribute to the linking of diachronic and synchronic studies.

The fascinating question of the origins and evolution of language has been drawing a lot of attention recently, not only from linguists, but also from anthropologists, evolutionary biologists, and brain scientists.

These specially-commissioned studies cover corpus-informed approaches to researching, teaching and learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP).

Most dialogues are multimodal.

Contrastive studies have experienced a dramatic revival in the last decades.

This work is designed, firstly, to both provoke theoretical discussion and serve as a practical guide for researchers and students in the field of corpus linguistics and, secondly, to offer a wide-ranging introduction to corpus techniques for practitioners of discourse studies.