Linguistic Expressions and Semantic Processing A Practical Approach /

• Main Author: Butler, Alastair (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Mathematical logic.; Computational linguistics.; Semantics.; Linguistics.; Computer Science.; Language Translation and Linguistics.; Computational Linguistics.; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.; Theoretical Linguistics.

This book introduces formal semantics techniques for a natural language processing audience. Methods discussed involve: (i) the denotational techniques used in model-theoretic semantics, which make it possible to determine whether a linguistic expression is true or false with respect to some model o...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1.Predicate Languages
• 2.Self-selective Evaluation
• 3.Self-locating Evaluation
• 4.Treebank Annotation
• Appendix: A Standard ML Introduction
• Index.