Computational and corpus linguistics

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

This work presents a discourse-aware Text Simplification approach that splits and rephrases complex English sentences within the semantic context in which they occur.

This book contains selected state-of-the-art contributions to the 9th conference on natural language processing, KONVENS 2008 (Konferenz zur Verarbeitung naturlicher Sprache), with the central theme: text resources and lexical knowledge.

Magdalena Krawiec provides insight into the underlying conceptual structure of information technology and gives a plausible account of the patterns of metaphorical conceptualisation manifested in the specialist language of IT.

This volume presents important results of the Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich) "e;Situated Artificial Communicators,"e; which was funded by grants from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) for more than twelve years.

This book mainly introduces a series of theory and approaches of group decision-making based on several types of uncertain linguistic expressions and addresses their applications.

Machines are being systematically empowered to be interactive and intelligent in their operations, offerings.

Handbook of Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering focuses on recent AI technologies and applications that provide some very promising solutions and enhanced technology in the biomedical field.

Modal verbs in English communicate delicate shades of meaning, there being a large range of verbs both on the necessity side (must, have to, should, ought to, need, need to) and the possibility side (can, may, could, might, be able to).

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.

This book provides linguists with a clear, critical, and comprehensive overview of theoretical and experimental work on information structure.

Karen Sparck Jones is one of the major figures of 20th century and early 21st Century computing and information processing.

In an era where accessibility is a key concern, this book provides a critical examination of live subtitling, which is essential for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing to access audiovisual media, including television.

The two-volume set LNCS 10761 + 10762 constitutes revised selected papers from the CICLing 2017 conference which took place in Budapest, Hungary, in April 2017.

This book addresses the challenges posed by adopting and developing new AI technologies and how they impact people.

Learning to rank refers to machine learning techniques for training the model in a ranking task.

Using a unified methodological and theoretical framework, this book compares interpersonal grammar systems across different languages.

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

This book presents the latest developments in translation and interpreting (T&I), which has been at the forefront to face the challenges brought by COVID-19.

This book provides a gradual introduction to the naming game, starting from the minimal naming game, where the agents have infinite memories (Chapter 2), before moving on to various new and advanced settings: the naming game with agents possessing finite-sized memories (Chapter 3); the naming game with group discussions (Chapter 4); the naming game with learning errors in communications (Chapter 5) ; the naming game on multi-community networks (Chapter 6) ; the naming game with multiple words or sentences (Chapter 7) ; and the naming game with multiple languages (Chapter 8).

From using machine learning to shave seconds off translations, to using natural language processing for accurate real-time translation services, this book covers all the aspects.

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

A Journey Through Cultures addresses one of the hottest topics in contemporary HCI: cultural diversity amongst users.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of methods to build comparable corpora and of their applications, including machine translation, cross-lingual transfer, and various kinds of multilingual natural language processing.

Reveals how AI works and provides insight into what we can expect of it now and in the future.

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

This book explores the interaction between corpus stylistics and translation studies.

An in-depth digital investigation of several 18th-century British corpora, this book identifies shared communities of meaning in the printed British 18th century by highlighting and analysing patterns in the distribution of lexis.

The evolving landscape of technology has presented numerous opportunities for addressing some of the most critical challenges in high-stakes domains such as medicine, law, and finance.

In its nine chapters, this book provides an overview of the state-of-the-art and best practice in several sub-fields of evaluation of text and speech systems and components.

This volume illustrates new trends in corpus linguistics and shows how corpus approaches can be used to investigate new datasets and emerging areas in linguistics and related fields.

In a world in which advanced communication technologies have made the reporting of disasters and conflicts (also in the form of breaking news) a familiar and 'normalised' activity, the information we present here about television news reporting of the 2003 war in Iraq has implications that go beyond this particular conflict.

This edited collection brings together the latest research on discourse and society in Latin America and Caribbean in one volume.

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.