Challenges in Natural Language Processing

This book addresses theoretical or applied work in the field of natural language processing.

Madeleine Bates (Edited by), Ralph M. Weischedel (Edited by)

9780521410151, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 24 September 1993

312 pages, 5 tables
23.7 x 15.6 x 2 cm, 0.53 kg

Although natural language processing has come far, the technology has not achieved a major impact on society. Is this because of some fundamental limitation that cannot be overcome? Or because there has not been enough time to refine and apply theoretical work already done? Editors Madeleine Bates and Ralph Weischedel believe it is neither; they feel that several critical issues have never been adequately addressed in either theoretical or applied work, and they have invited capable researchers in the field to do that in Challenges in Natural Language Processing. This volume will be of interest to researchers of computational linguistics in academic and non-academic settings and to graduate students in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence and linguistics.

Preface
Symposium participants
Part I. Challenging Problems: 1. Critical changes for natural language processing Madeleine Bates, Robert J. Bobrow and Ralph M. Weischedel
Part II. Building a Lexicon: 2. The contribution of lexicography B. T. Sue Atkins
3. The contribution of linguistics Beth Levin
4. The contribution of computational lexicology Branimar K. Boguraev
Part III. Semantics and Knowledge Representation: 5. Events, situations and adverbs Robert C. Moore
6. Natural language, knowledge representation and logical form James F. Allen
Part IV. Discourse: 7. Getting and keeping the center of attention Rebecca J. Passonneau
8. Surface structure, intonation and discourse meaning Mark Steedman
Part V. Spoken Language Systems: 9. Prosody, intonation and speech technology Janet Pierrehumbert
Part VI. Conclusion: 10. The future of computational linguistics Madeleine Bates and Ralph M. Weischedel
Author index
Subject index.

Subject Areas: Natural language & machine translation [UYQL]