Evolutionary Language Understanding

Geoffrey Sampson

• Hardcover | Engels | Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• This book records a unique attempt over a ten-year period to use stochastic optimization in the natural language processing domain. Setting the work a... Lees meer

Faux Amis and Key Words

Philip Thody, Howard Evans, Gwilym Rees

• Hardcover | Engels | Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• Witty, entertaining, and informative, this book on so-called 'false friends' will be of immediate use to anyone using the French language and needing ... Lees meer

User Modelling in Text Generation

Cecile Paris

• Hardcover | Engels | Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• This book addresses the issue of how the user's level of domain knowledge affects interaction with a computer system. It demonstrates the feasibility ... Lees meer

Text Knowledge and Object Knowledge

Annely Rothkegel

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• Rothkegel argues that text production is the result of interaction between text knowledge and object knowledge - the conventional ordering and present... Lees meer

The Case for Lexicase

Stanley Starosta

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• Starosta describes the formal properties of lexicase theory and its historical and metatheoretical relations to other current grammatical frameworks. ... Lees meer

New Concepts in Natural Language Generation

Helmut Horacek

• Hardcover | Engels | Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• This book aims to inform researchers with an interest in natural language generation about advances in the field. It is organised around four topics -... Lees meer

Ways of Saying: Ways of Meaning

Ruqaiya Hasan

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• This work comprises a collection of the writings of Ruqaiya Hasan, an influential figure in the systemic functional linguistic learning school. It dis... Lees meer

African Acronyms and Abbreviations

• Hardcover | Engels | Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• This is a directory of approximately 13,000 acronyms and abbreviations relating to Africa, including names of societies, institutions, associations, m... Lees meer

Into the Mother Tongue

Clare Painter

• Hardcover | Engels | Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• This book offers a systematic linguistic critique of language development studies since the 1960s. It uses systemic theory to explain and interpret th... Lees meer

The Semiotics of Culture and Language

Robin P Fawcett

• Hardcover | Engels | Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• Semiotics - the study of the general principles of signs and sign systems - is crucial to an understanding of human nature, both social and psychologi... Lees meer

Expressibility and the Problem of Efficient Text Planning

Marie Meteer

• Hardcover | Engels | Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• A central problem of natural language generation is that of 'expressibility'. Meteer presents a solution which uses a level of representation called t... Lees meer

Linguistic Issues in Machine Translation

Frank Van Eydne

• Hardcover | Engels | Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• The key assumption in this text is that machine translation is not merely a mechanical process but in fact requires a high level of linguistic sophist... Lees meer

The Intonation Systems of English

Paul Tench

• Hardcover | Engels | Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• Tench provides an introduction to the current state of functional linguistics studies in the intonation of English. Intended not only for students of ... Lees meer

The Body in Language

Horst Ruthrof

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• This book opposes the position that meanings can be explained by way of intralinguistic relations, as in structural linguistics and its successors, an... Lees meer

The Semiotics of Culture and Language

Robin P Fawcett

• Hardcover | Engels | Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• Semiotics - the study of the general principles of signs and sign systems - is crucial to an understanding of human nature, both social and psychologi... Lees meer

Studies in Systemic Phonology

Paul Tench

• Hardcover | Engels | Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• This is the first collection of studies to apply the theory and techniques of Systemic Linguistics to the topics of phonology: descriptions of the pro... Lees meer

Scoor-Oot

James A C Stevenson, Iseabail MacLeod

• Hardcover | Engels | Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• This dictionary covers a multitude of Scots words and expressions, some of which have entered into English worldwide, some of which are peculiarly Sco... Lees meer

Nihongo

Roy Andrew Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• The Japanese language is often under attack by linguists, translators and even amateurs for having a seemingly vague set of rules, making it near impo... Lees meer

The Communicative Syllabus

Robin Melrose

• Hardcover | Engels | Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• Beginning with a thorough survey of approaches to communicative syllabus design, Melrose deals with the early 1970s functional approach and subsequent... Lees meer