Computational and corpus linguistics

Intelligent Multimodal Information Presentation relates to the ability of a computer system to automatically produce interactive information presentations, taking into account the specifics about the user, such as needs, interests and knowledge, and engaging in a collaborative interaction that helps the retrieval of relevant information and its understanding on the part of the user.

This book explores how language constructs the meaning and praxis of security in the 21st century.

This book provides an overview of various techniques for the alignment of bitexts.

This book covers state-of-the-art topics on the practical implementation of Spoken Dialog Systems and intelligent assistants in everyday applications.

This book analyzes how news discourse was shaped over time by external factors, such as the historical context, news production, technological innovation and current affairs, and as such both conformed to and deviated from generic conventions.

Parsing technology traditionally consists of two branches, which correspond to the two main application areas of context-free grammars and their generalizations.

Understanding Artificial Minds through Human Minds: The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence provides an accessible introduction into artificial intelligence through the lens of psychology.

Opportunity and Curiosity find similar rocks on Mars.

This book focuses on linguistic synaesthesia in a hitherto less-studied language - Mandarin Chinese - and adopts a corpus-driven approach to support the analysis and argumentation.

This comprehensive Handbook presents an interdisciplinary overview of formal semantics, with contributions from leading scholars.

When viewed through a political lens, the act of defining terms in natural language arguably transforms knowledge into values.

This undergraduate textbook introduces essential machine learning concepts in NLP in a unified and gentle mathematical framework.

This book examines the intersection of culture and language in Ireland and Irish contexts.

In the not so distant future, we can expect a world where humans and robots coexist and interact with each other.

This book discusses how scientific and other types of cognition make use of models, abduction, and explanatory reasoning in order to produce important, innovative, and possibly creative changes in theories and concepts.

Since the last edition of this book (2014), progress has been astonishing in all areas of Natural Language Processing, with recent achievements in Text Generation that spurred a media interest going beyond the traditional academic circles.

Context is necessary for understanding human behavior.

The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics provides a timely overview of a dynamic and rapidly growing area with a widely applied methodology.

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.

This textbook approaches second language acquisition from the perspective of generative linguistics.

In line with the increasing use of empirical methods in Cognitive Linguistics, the current volume explores the uses of quantitative, in particular corpus-driven, techniques for the study of meaning.

This handbook is the first to explore the growing field of experimental semantics and pragmatics.

This volume contains proceedings of the European Summer Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, held in Vienna, Austria in August, 2001.

A review of recent computational (deep learning) approaches to understanding news and nonfiction stories.

Intensional logic has emerged, since the 1960' s, as a powerful theoretical and practical tool in such diverse disciplines as computer science, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy and even the foundations of mathematics.

This book takes concepts developed by researchers in theoretical computer science and adapts and applies them to the study of natural language meaning.

This volume highlights the ways in which recent developments in corpus linguistics and natural language processing can engage with topics across language studies, humanities and social science disciplines.

This book addresses big data as a socio-technical construct with huge potential for innovation in key sectors such as healthcare, government and business.

This book undertakes a systematic analysis of the workings of ideology in discourse, using an interdisciplinary approach that links language, cognition and society.

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.

The two volumes LNCS 9041 and 9042 constitute the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, CICLing 2015, held in Cairo, Egypt, in April 2015.

The aim of this volume is to bring together researchers interested in investigating the role that Discourse Markers play in language production and comprehension from an experimental or corpus-based perspective.

The standard scientific methodology in linguistics is empirical testing of falsifiable hypotheses.

This book shows ways of augmenting the capabilities of Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems by means of cognitive-mode language processing.

This book discusses key issues of corpus linguistics like the definition of the corpus, primary features of a corpus, and utilization and limitations of corpora.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2015, held in Toulouse, France, in September 2015.

This book provides an in-depth view of the current issues, problems and approaches in the computation of meaning as expressed in language.