This revised edition of the highly recommended book "e;First-Order Modal Logic"e;, originally published in 1998, contains both new and modified chapters reflecting the latest scientific developments.
Adopting a multi-perspective ontological approach to language in social life, this book investigates the concept of journalistic stance, defining it as a nexus of social practice rather than simply linguistic realizations.
To apply the same approaches to analysing spoken and written formulaic language is problematic; to do so masks the fact that the contextual meaning of spoken formulaic language is encoded, to a large extent, in its prosody.
This handbook draws together international perspectives on technology and its application to language teaching and learning, written and edited by leading scholars in the field.
This book introduces audio watermarking methods for copyright protection, which has drawn extensive attention for securing digital data from unauthorized copying.
This book introduces basic supervised learning algorithms applicable to natural language processing (NLP) and shows how the performance of these algorithms can often be improved by exploiting the marginal distribution of large amounts of unlabeled data.
This book provides a thorough introduction to the subfield of theoretical computer science known as grammatical inference from a computational linguistic perspective.
This book provides information on digital audio watermarking, its applications, and its evaluation for copyright protection of audio signals - both basic and advanced.
This book provides an overview of a range of quantitative methods, presenting a thorough analytical toolbox which will be of practical use to researchers across the social sciences as they face the challenges raised by new technology-driven language practices.
Corpus-Based Approaches to ELT presents a compilation of research exploring different ways to apply corpus-based and corpus-informed approaches to English language teaching.
Adaptive Multimodal Interactive Systems introduces a general framework for adapting multimodal interactive systems and comprises a detailed discussion of each of the steps required for adaptation.
In a world where communication is key to human connection, understanding, and learning from one another, the book investigates the rich and intricate world of sign languages, highlighting the fascinating complexities of visual-spatial languages and their unique role in bridging the gap between hearing and deaf communities through information and communication technology.
This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data- processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine.