An Introduction to Natural Language Processing Through Prolog

✍ Scribed by Clive Matthews

• Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 312
• Series: Learning About Language
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Introduces the subject through the discussion & development of various computer programs which illustrate some of the basic concepts & techniques in the field. The programming language used is Prolog. Paper.

✦ Table of Contents

An Introduction to Natural Language Processing Through Prolog......Page 1
Table of contents......Page 3
Preface......Page 6
PART I - Introduction......Page 10
1 - Natural Language Processing......Page 11
2 - The Challenge of Natural Language Processing......Page 22
PART II - The Fundamentals of Prolog Programming......Page 38
3 - Facts......Page 40
4 - Rules and Complex Names......Page 60
5 - Lists and Recursive Rules......Page 71
6 - Developing Prolog Programs......Page 89
7 - Built-in Predicates......Page 112
PART III - Natural Language Processing with Prolog......Page 127
8 - Finite State Grammars and Sentence Recognition......Page 129
9 - Recursive Transition Networks......Page 149
10 - Phrase Structure Grammars......Page 170
11 - Definite Clause Grammars......Page 191
12 - Alternative Parsing Strategies......Page 220
Solutions to Exercises......Page 254
Glossary of Terms......Page 290
Bibliography......Page 301
Index......Page 309