Computational and corpus linguistics

This book explores the empirical and theoretical aspects of constituent structure in natural language syntax.

In this book, leading researchers in morphology, syntax, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics address central questions about the form and acquisition of analogy in grammar.

This book considers how people talk about the location of objects and places.

This book is the first comprehensive presentation of Functional Discourse Grammar, a new and important theory of language structure.

This important contribution to the Minimalist Program offers a comprehensive theory of locality and new insights into phrase structure and syntactic cartography.

This book collects and introduces some of the best and most useful work in practical lexicography.

This is a down-to-earth, 'how to do it' textbook on the making of dictionaries.

In this book, Peter Culicover introduces the analysis of natural language within the broader question of how language works - of how people use languages to configure words and morphemes in order to express meanings.

This book introduces the most important problems of reference and considers the solutions that have been proposed to explain them.

How does human language work?

The book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of morphology, syntax, computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP).

This groundbreaking book offers a new and compelling perspective on the structure of human language.

This reader collects and introduces important work in linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics on the use of linguistic devices in natural languages to situate events in time: whether they are past, present, or future; whether they are real or hypothetical; when an event might have occurred, and how long it could have lasted.

This handbook presents an overview of the phenomenon of reference - the ability to refer to and pick out entities - which is an essential part of human language and cognition.

This handbook presents an overview of the phenomenon of reference - the ability to refer to and pick out entities - which is an essential part of human language and cognition.

This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language to describe events.

This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language to describe events.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the role of recursion in language in two distinct but interconnected ways.

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

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the field of Persian linguistics, discusses its development, and captures critical accounts of cutting edge research within its major subfields, as well as outlining current debates and suggesting productive lines of future research.

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the field of Persian linguistics, discusses its development, and captures critical accounts of cutting edge research within its major subfields, as well as outlining current debates and suggesting productive lines of future research.

Chapters in this volume describe morphology using four different frameworks that have an architectural property in common: they all use defaults as a way of discovering and presenting systematicity in the least systematic component of grammar.

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

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

Adriana Belletti here collects work presented by top scholars at a workshop at the University of Siena in connection with a visit by Noam Chomsky.

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

Computers are essential for the functioning of our society.

In our everyday speech we represent events and situations, but we also provide commentary on these representations, situating ourselves and others relative to what we have to say and situating what we say in larger contexts.

This contributed volume discusses in detail the process of construction of a WordNet of 18 Indian languages, called "e;Indradhanush"e; (rainbow) in Hindi.

This volume presents several machine intelligence technologies, developed over recent decades, and illustrates how they can be combined in application.

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 book is about machine translation (MT) and the classic problems associated with this language technology.

Quotient Space Based Problem Solving provides an in-depth treatment of hierarchical problem solving, computational complexity, and the principles and applications of multi-granular computing, including inference, information fusing, planning, and heuristic search.

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).

In this Element, the authors introduce and apply a framework for the linguistic analysis of fake news.

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

To trainee translators and established professionals alike, the range of tools and technologies now available, and the speed with which they change, can seem bewildering.

To trainee translators and established professionals alike, the range of tools and technologies now available, and the speed with which they change, can seem bewildering.

This book provides a systematic, empirical account of the language typically presented in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks, based on a large corpus of EFL textbooks used in secondary schools.

This book will show how generative technology works and the drivers.

Text Entry Systems covers different aspects of text entry systems and offers prospective researchers and developers global guidelines for conducting research on text entry, in terms of design strategy, evaluation methodology, and requirements; a discussion of the history and current state of the art of entry systems; and specific guidelines for designing entry systems for a specific target, depending on devices, modalities, language, and different physical conditions of users.

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

Many AI (and machine learning) tasks present in dual forms, e.

This is the first volume specifically dedicated to competition in inflection and word-formation, a topic that has increasingly attracted attention.