Language, Cohesion and Form (Studies in Natural Language Processing) - Hardcover

Masterman, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521454891 ISBN 13: 9780521454896

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Margaret Masterman was a pioneer in the field of computational linguistics. Working in the earliest days of language processing by computer, she believed that meaning, not grammar, was the key to understanding languages, and that machines could determine the meaning of sentences. She was able, even on simple machines, to undertake sophisticated experiments in machine translation, and carried out important work on the use of semantic codings and thesauri to determine the meaning structure of texts. This volume brings together Masterman's groundbreaking papers for the first time. Through his insightful commentaries, Yorick Wilks argues that Masterman came close to developing a computational theory of language meaning based on the ideas of Wittgenstein, and shows the importance of her work in the philosophy of science and the nature of iconic languages. Of key interest in computational linguistics and artificial intelligence, it will remind scholars of Masterman's significant contribution to the field.

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About the Author

Yorick Wilks is Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521454891
• ISBN 13: 9780521454896
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 324
• Editor: Wilks Yorick