Challenges in Natural Language Processing (Studies in Natural Language Processing)

✍ Scribed by Madeleine Bates (editor), Ralph M. Weischedel (editor)

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 309
• Series: Studies in Natural Language Processing
• Edition: First Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Though natural language processing has come far in the past twenty years, 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Symposium participants......Page 11
Part I - Challenging problems......Page 14
1 - Critical challenges for natural language processing......Page 16
Part II - Building a lexicon......Page 48
2 - The contribution of lexicography......Page 50
3 - The contribution of linguistics......Page 89
4 - The contribution of computational lexicography......Page 112
Part III - Semantics and knowledge representation......Page 146
5 - Events, situations, and adverbs......Page 148
6 - Natural language, knowledge representation, and logical form......Page 159
Part IV - Discourse......Page 190
7 - Getting and keeping the center of attention......Page 192
8 - Surface structure, intonation, and discourse meaning......Page 241
Part V - Spoken language systems......Page 268
9 - Prosody, intonation, and speech technology......Page 270
Part VI - Conclusion......Page 294
10 - The future of computational linguistics......Page 296
Author index......Page 302
Subject index......Page 305