Words and Intelligence I Selected Papers by Yorick Wilks /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ahmad, Khurshid (Editor), Brewster, Christopher (Editor), Stevenson, Mark (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology, 35
• Subjects: Computer science.; Language and languages > Philosophy.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational linguistics.; Semantics.; Computer Science.; Language Translation and Linguistics.; Computational Linguistics.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Philosophy of Language.

Yorick Wilks is a central figure in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. His influence extends to many areas and includes contributions to Machines Translation, word sense disambiguation, dialogue modeling and Information Extraction. This book celebrates the work of...

Table of Contents:

• Text Searching with Templates
• Decidability and Natural Language
• The Stanford Machine Translation Project
• An Intelligent Analyzer and Understander of English
• A Preferential, Pattern-Seeking, Semantics for Natural Language Inference
• Good and Bad Arguments About Semantic Primitives
• Making Preferences More Active
• Providing Machine Tractable Dictionary Tools
• Belief Ascription, Metaphor, and Intensional Identification
• Stone Soup and the French Room
• Senses and Texts.