1st Edition
Natural Language Computing An English Generative Grammar in Prolog
By Ray C. Dougherty
Copyright 1994
400 Pages
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Psychology Press
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This book's main goal is to show readers how to use the linguistic theory of Noam Chomsky, called Universal Grammar, to represent English, French, and German on a computer using the Prolog computer language. In so doing, it presents a follow-the-dots approach to natural language processing, linguistic theory, artificial intelligence, and expert systems. The basic idea is to introduce meaningful... Read more
Contents: Preface. Introduction: What is Computational Linguistics? How to Use This Book: A Pictorial Essay. Natural Intelligence, Linguistics, and Prolog. How to Read and Write in Prolog. How to Load, Run, and Edit a Prolog Program. Tables of Data as Prolog Facts and Relations. How Prolog Backtracks in Searches. The Canonical Form of a Prolog Relation. Computational Tools for Language Processing. Computational Tools for Sentence Processing. Appendices: The Disk Included With This Book. How to Access the New York University BBS. Flavor Files. Looking into Prolog: listing, trace, and breakpoint.
Biography
Ray C. Dougherty
