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Synopsis
This is a text designed for use in introductory courses in computational linguistics taught in computer science and linguistics departments. Smith's text is designed to meet the pressing need for appropriate undergraduate teaching materials in this subject. Classroom-tested, it provides a gradual systematic exposition of this challenging subject, setting computational approaches within the context of linguistic and cognitive theory. The text is written to be accessible to students with brief experience in the formal study of language and those with some exposure to algorithmic thinking. It should not only serve existing courses in computational linguistics but permit programmes without such courses to develop them.
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Review
'extremely comprehensive ... Smith is well-read and up-to-date' Times Higher Education Supplement
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Offering an inquiry into the nature of language from the perspective of computing, Computers and Human Language synthesizes recent research in linguistics, computer science, and experimental psychology as it explores the major computational approaches to language. Among the topics considered are the computationally tractable, symbolic basis of language, the mental lexicon as repository of knowledge, the elegantly recursive structure of syntax, and the compositional nature of meanings, together with the segmentation, focus, and hierarchical construction of extended discourse.
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