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The Corporate Terminologist

Kara Warburton

The Corporate Terminologist is the first monograph that addresses the principles and methods for managing terminology in content production environments that are both demanding and multilingual, such as those found in global companies and institutions. It describes the needs of large corporations… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 21] 2021. xxiv, 249 pp.

Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology

Edited by Ruslan Mitkov, Johanna Monti, Gloria Corpas Pastor and Violeta Seretan

The correct interpretation of Multiword Units (MWUs) is crucial to many applications in Natural Language Processing but is a challenging and complex task. In recent years, the computational treatment of MWUs has received considerable attention but there is much more to be done before we can claim… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 341] 2018. ix, 259 pp.

Literary Detective Work on the Computer

Michael P. Oakes

Computational linguistics can be used to uncover mysteries in text which are not always obvious to visual inspection. For example, the computer analysis of writing style can show who might be the true author of a text in cases of disputed authorship or suspected plagiarism. The theoretical… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 12] 2014. x, 283 pp.

Natural Language Processing for Online Applications: Text retrieval, extraction and categorization. Second revised edition

Peter Jackson and Isabelle Moulinier

This text covers the technologies of document retrieval, information extraction, and text categorization in a way which highlights commonalities in terms of both general principles and practical concerns. It assumes some mathematical background on the part of the reader, but the chapters typically… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 5] 2007. x, 231 pp.

Anaphora Processing: Linguistic, cognitive and computational modelling

Edited by António Branco, Tony McEnery and Ruslan Mitkov

Anaphora processing is a central topic in the study of natural language and has long been the object of research in a wide range of disciplines. The correct interpretation of anaphora has also become increasingly important for real-world natural language processing applications, including machine… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 263] 2005. x, 449 pp.

Lexique, Syntaxe et Lexique-Grammaire / Syntax, Lexis & Lexicon-Grammar: Papers in honour of Maurice Gross

Edited by Christian Leclère, Éric Laporte, Mireille Piot and Max Silberztein

Maurice Gross, who died in December 2001, was a pioneer and leading thinker in the field of modern linguistics. Long before computers could facilitate large-scale, lexically-based language study, he and his team began building an exhaustive, empirically-based inventory of the "lexicon-grammar" of… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 24] 2004. xxii, 659 pp.

Memory-Based Parsing

Sandra Kübler

Memory-Based Learning (MBL), one of the most influential machine learning paradigms, has been applied with great success to a variety of NLP tasks. This monograph describes the application of MBL to robust parsing. Robust parsing using MBL can provide added functionality for key NLP applications,… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 7] 2004. viii, 294 pp.

Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing III: Selected papers from RANLP 2003

Edited by Nicolas Nicolov, Kalina Bontcheva, Galia Angelova and Ruslan Mitkov

This volume brings together revised versions of a selection of papers presented at the 2003 International Conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing”. A wide range of topics is covered in the volume: semantics, dialogue, summarization, anaphora resolution, shallow parsing,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 260] 2004. xii, 402 pp.

Analogical Modeling: An exemplar-based approach to language

Edited by Royal Skousen, Deryle Lonsdale and Dilworth B. Parkinson

Analogical Modeling (AM) is an exemplar-based general theory of description that uses both neighbors and non-neighbors (under certain well-defined conditions of homogeneity) to predict language behavior. This book provides a basic introduction to AM, compares the theory with nearest-neighbor… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 10] 2002. x, 416 pp.

The Dynamics of Terminology: A descriptive theory of term formation and terminological growth

Kyo Kageura

The discovery of rules for the systematicity and dynamics of terminology creations is essential for a sound basis of a theory of terminology. This quest provides the driving force for The Dynamics of Terminology in which Dr. Kageura demonstrates the interaction of these two factors on a specific… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 5] 2002. viii, 322 pp.

Exploring Time, Tense and Aspect in Natural Language Database Interfaces

Ion Androutsopoulos

Advances in temporal databases make it increasingly easier to store time-dependent information, creating a need for facilities that will help end-users access this information. In the context of natural language interaction, significant effort has been devoted to interfaces that allow database… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 6] 2002. x, 306 pp.

The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and information into the 21st century. Volume 2: Mathematics and computability of language

Edited by Bruce E. Nevin and Stephen B. Johnson

Zellig Harris had a profound influence in formal systems and applied mathematics, in demonstrations of the computability of language, and in informatics. Volume 2 begins with a commentary by André Lentin on Harris's grounding in constructivist, intuitionist mathematics, drawing a parallel between… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 229] 2002. xix, 312 pp.

The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and information into the 21st century. 2 Volumes (set)

Edited by Bruce E. Nevin and Stephen B. Johnson

Zellig Harris opened many lines of research in language, information, and culture. In these two volumes an international array of scholars describe Harris’s work, further developments, and relate this work to that of others.Volume 1 focuses on the importance of Harris’s work in the philosophy of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 228-229] 2002. xxxvi, 323 pp. & xx, 312 pp.

The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing: Formal, computational and experimental issues

Edited by Paola Merlo and Suzanne Stevenson

Lexical effects on language processing are currently a major focus of attention in studies of sentence comprehension. This thematic collection provides a uniquely multi-faceted and integrated viewpoint on key aspects of lexicalist theories, drawing from the fields of theoretical linguistics,… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 4] 2002. viii, 363 pp.

Natural Language Processing for Online Applications: Text retrieval, extraction and categorization

Peter Jackson and Isabelle Moulinier

This text covers the emerging technologies of document retrieval, information extraction, and text categorization in a way which highlights commonalities in terms of both general principles and practical issues. It seeks to satisfy a need on the part of technology practitioners in the Internet… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 5 (1st)] 2002. x, 226 pp.

Ambiguity

Sous la direction de Éric Laporte

Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 24:1 (2001) iv, 146 pp.

Automatic Summarization

Inderjeet Mani

With the explosion in the quantity of on-line text and multimedia information in recent years, there has been a renewed interest in automatic summarization. This book provides a systematic introduction to the field, explaining basic definitions, the strategies used by human summarizers, and… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 3] 2001. xii, 286 pp.

Communicative Organization in Natural Language: The semantic-communicative structure of sentences

Igor Mel’čuk

The book defines the concept of Semantic-Communicative Structure [= Sem-CommS]-a formal object that is imposed on the starting Semantic Structure [= SemS] of a sentence (under text synthesis) in order to turn the selected meaning into a linguistic message. The Sem-CommS is a system of eight… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 57] 2001. xii, 393 pp.

Abduction, Belief and Context in Dialogue: Studies in computational pragmatics

Edited by Harry Bunt and William Black

Language is always generated and interpreted in a certain context, and the semantic, syntactic, and lexical properties of linguistic expressions reflect this. Interactive language understanding systems, such as language-based dialogue systems, therefore have to apply contextual information to… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 1] 2000. vii, 471 pp.

Early Years in Machine Translation: Memoirs and biographies of pioneers

Edited by John W. Hutchins

Machine translation (MT) was one of the first non-numerical applications of the computer in the 1950s and 1960s. With limited equipment and programming tools, researchers from a wide range of disciplines (electronics, linguistics, mathematics, engineering, etc.) tackled the unknown problems of… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 97] 2000. xii, 400 pp.

Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing: Volume II: Selected papers from RANLP ’97

Edited by Nicolas Nicolov and Ruslan Mitkov

This volume brings together revised versions of a selection of papers presented at the Second International Conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing” (RANLP’97) held in Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, September 1997. The aim of the conference was to give researchers the opportunity to… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 189] 2000. xi, 422 pp.

The Structure of Multimodal Dialogue II

Edited by M. Martin Taylor, Françoise Néel and Don Bouwhuis

Most dialogues are multimodal. When people talk, they use not only their voices, but also facial expressions and other gestures, and perhaps even touch. When computers communicate with people, they use pictures and perhaps sounds, together with textual language, and when people communicate with… read more

[Not in series, 99] 2000. xviii, 522 pp.

Analyse Lexicale et Syntaxique: Le système INTEX

Edited by Cédrick Fairon

Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 22:1/2 (1999) v, 449 pp.

Issues in Mathematical Linguistics: Workshop on Mathematical Linguistics, State College, PA, April 1998

Edited by Carlos Martín-Vide

This brief collection of refereed papers approaches several technical as well as methodological aspects of the mathematical formalization of natural language, particularly in syntax and in semantics. Such kind of investigation is a prerequisite for the computational processing of language and is… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 47] 1999. xii, 214 pp.

Hedging in Scientific Research Articles

Ken Hyland

This book provides a comprehensive study of hedging in academic research papers, relating a systematic analysis of forms to a pragmatic explanation for their use. Based on a detailed examination of journal articles and interviews with research scientists, the study shows that the extensive use of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 54] 1998. x, 308 pp.

Mathematical and Computational Analysis of Natural Language: Selected papers from the 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Linguistics (ICML ’96), Tarragona, 1996

Edited by Carlos Martín-Vide

In the last decade, computational linguistics has produced a revival of the interest in the mathematical study of the various levels of human language. This volume contains a selection of recent research papers approaching mathematical and computational topics in natural languages, with a special… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 45] 1998. xviii, 391 pp.

Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing: Selected Papers from RANLP ’95

Edited by Ruslan Mitkov and Nicolas Nicolov

This volume is based on contributions from the First International Conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing” (RANLP’95) held in Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, 14-16 September 1995. This conference was one of the most important and competitively reviewed conferences in Natural Language… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 136] 1997. xii, 472 pp.

Lexical Functions in Lexicography and Natural Language Processing

Edited by Leo Wanner

Lexical Functions in Lexicography and Natural Language Processing is entirely devoted to the topic of Lexical Functions, which have been introduced in the framework of the Meaning-Text Theory (MTT) as a means for describing restricted lexical co-occurrence and derivational relations. It provides… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 31] 1996. xx, 355 pp.

The Possibility of Language: A discussion of the nature of language, with implications for human and machine translation

Alan K. Melby and Terry Warner

This book is about the limits of machine translation. It is widely recognized that machine translation systems do much better on domain-specific controlled-language texts (domain texts for short) than on dynamic general-language texts (general texts for short). The authors explore this general —… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 14] 1995. xxvi, 276 pp.

Language Engineering and Translation: Consequences of automation

Juan C. Sager

At a time when information technology has become a regular tool of specialised translators in all aspects of their work, it is useful to place the activity of technical translation into its appropriate environment and to describe it from the point of view of its role in the broader context of… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 1] 1994. xx, 345 pp.

Text and Technology: In honour of John Sinclair

Edited by Mona Baker, Gill Francis and Elena Tognini-Bonelli

Text and Technology focuses on three major areas of modern linguistics: discourse analysis, corpus-driven analysis of language, and computational linguistics. The volume starts off with a description of the various British traditions in text analysis by Michael Stubbs. The first section “Spoken and… read more

[Not in series, 64] 1993. xii, 361 pp.

Machine Translation: Linguistic characteristics of MT systems and general methodology of evaluation

John Lehrberger and Laurent Bourbeau

The use of the computer in translating natural languages ranges from that of a translator's aid for word processing and dictionary lookup to that of a full-fledged translator on its own. However the obstacles to translating by means of the computer are primarily linguistic. To overcome them it is… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 15] 1988. viii, 240 pp.