Computational and corpus linguistics

This book features contributions to the XVIIth International Conference "e;Linguistic and Cultural Studies: Traditions and Innovations"e; (LKTI 2017), providing insights into theory, research, scientific achievements, and best practices in the fields of pedagogics, linguistics, and language teaching and learning with a particular focus on Siberian perspectives and collaborations between academics from other Russian regions.

The focus of this textbook is the meaning of linguistic expressions, typically full sentences and longer texts.

This book introduces a Digital Social System Praxis Framework (DSSPF) integrating Computational Media, Evolutionary Systems Thinking and Design Thinking approaches to E-transformation practice, also called Community Informatics Design (CID).

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

This book fills a significant gap in the field by addressing the topic of absence in discourse.

This textbook examines empirical linguistics from a theoretical linguist's perspective.

This book integrates current advances in biology, economics of information and linguistics research through applications using agent-based modeling and social network analysis to develop scenarios of communication and language emergence in the social aspects of biological communications.

This textbook gives a systematized and compact summary, providing the most essential types of modern models for languages and computation together with their properties and applications.

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This book presents a corpus-based study of spoken learner language produced by university-level ESL students in the classroom.

This book develops a morphodynamical approach to linguistic and sign structures as an integrated response to multilevel and interrelated problems in semiolinguistic research.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference, NooJ 2016, held Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, in June 2016.

This book is a collective volume that reports the state of the art in the applications of type theory to linguistic semantics.

The book offers a comprehensive survey of soft-computing models for optical character recognition systems.

This book discusses the contribution of articulatory and excitation source information in discriminating sound units.

This volume presents articles that focus on the application of formal models in the study of language in a variety of innovative ways, and is dedicated to Jacques Moeschler, professor at University of Geneva, to mark the occasion of his 60th birthday.

The book offers a detailed guide to temporal ordering, exploring open problems in the field and providing solutions and extensive analysis.

This book explores the grammar of to infinitives and gerundial -ing clauses, which is a central area at the interface of syntax and semantics, against the background of what has been called the Great Complement Shift.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2016, held in Toulouse, France, in September 2016.

Future technical systems will be companion systems, competent assistants that provide their functionality in a completely individualized way, adapting to a user's capabilities, preferences, requirements, and current needs, and taking into account both the emotional state and the situation of the individual user.

The emergence of intelligent technologies, sophisticated natural language processing methodologies and huge textual repositories, invites a new approach for the challenge of automatically identifying personality dimensions through the analysis of textual data.

This book serves as a starting point for Semantic Web (SW) students and researchers interested in discovering what Natural Language Processing (NLP) has to offer.

This volume unpacks an intriguing challenge for the field of media research: combining media research with the study of complex networks.

This book covers language modeling and automatic speech recognition for inflective languages (e.

The present volume of the Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics series, presents cutting-edge corpus pragmatics research on language use in new social and educational environments.

This book provides a broad and comprehensive overview of the existing technical approaches in the area of silent speech interfaces (SSI), both in theory and in application.

This book uniquely integrates discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine representations of the self and other within lifestyle migration.

This case study-based textbook in multivariate analysis for advanced students in the humanities emphasizes descriptive, exploratory analyses of various types of datasets from a wide range of sub-disciplines, promoting the use of multivariate analysis and illustrating its wide applicability.

This edited volume provides a platform for experts from various fields to introduce and discuss their different perspectives on the topic of teamwork and collaborative problem solving.

Universal codes efficiently compress sequences generated by stationary and ergodic sources with unknown statistics, and they were originally designed for lossless data compression.

This book serves as a basic reference for thoseinterested in the application of metaheuristics to speech enhancement.

In this thesis, the author makes several contributions to thestudy of design of graphical materials.

This book constitutes the refereed post-workshopproceedings of the Second International Workshop on Worldwide Language ServiceInfrastructure, WLSI 2015, held in Kyoto, Japan, in January 2015.

This book offers a timely report on keytheories and applications of soft-computing.

This contributed volume explores the achievements gained and the remaining puzzling questions by applying dynamical systems theory to the linguistic inquiry.

This book introduces Meaningful Purposive Interaction Analysis (MPIA) theory, which combines social network analysis (SNA) with latent semantic analysis (LSA) to help create and analyse a meaningful learning landscape from the digital traces left by a learning community in the co-construction of knowledge.

This book explores the various categories of speech variation and works to draw a line between linguistic and paralinguistic phenomenon of speech.

This book reports on an outstanding thesis thathas significantly advanced the state-of-the-art in the automated analysis andclassification of speech and music.

This book discusses the Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) framework applied in dialogue systems.

The objective of this monograph is to improve the performance of the sentiment analysis model by incorporating the semantic, syntactic and common-sense knowledge.

This book collects research contributions concerning quantitative approaches to characterize originality and universality in language.

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 a survey of the state-of-the-art in the practical implementation of Spoken Dialog Systems for applications in everyday settings.

This volume provides an overview of the field of Hybrid Machine Translation (MT) and presents some of the latest research conducted by linguists and practitioners from different multidisciplinary areas.

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

This book introduces formal semantics techniques for a natural language processing audience.

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 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.

This book covers key issues related to Geospatial Semantic Web, including geospatial web services for spatial data interoperability; geospatial ontology for semantic interoperability; ontology creation, sharing, and integration; querying knowledge and information from heterogeneous data source; interfaces for Geospatial Semantic Web, VGI (Volunteered Geographic Information) and Geospatial Semantic Web; challenges of Geospatial Semantic Web; and development of Geospatial Semantic Web applications.