Constraints, Language and Computation - Softcover

9781493306183: Constraints, Language and Computation

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1493306189 ISBN 13: 9781493306183

Publisher: Academic Press, 2014

Constraint-based linguistics is intersected by three fields: logic, linguistics, and computer sciences. The central theme that ties these different disciplines together is the notion of a linguistic formalism or metalanguage. This metalanguage has good mathematical properties, is designed to express descriptions of language, and has a semantics that can be implemented on a computer. Constraints, Language and Computation discusses the theory and practice of constraint-based computational linguistics. The book captures both the maturity of the field and some of its more interesting future prospects during a particulary important moment of development in this field.

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About the Author

Torrence V. Johnson is a specialist on icy satellites in the solar system. He has written over 130 publications for scientific journals. He received a Ph.D. in planetary science from the California Institute of Technology and is now a Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is the Project Scientist for the Galileo mission and is the recipient of two NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medals and the NASA Exceptional Service Medal.

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