Implementing Typed Feature Structure Grammars: Volume 110 (Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes) - Softcover

Copestake, Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575862603 ISBN 13: 9781575862606

Publisher: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 2002

Synopsis

Much of the work in modern formal linguistics is concerned with giving mathematically precise accounts of human languages. Such work is particularly suited for research that involves language processing with computers. This book provides an introduction to one particularly popular approach, typed-feature structure formalisms. Implementing Typed Feature Structure Grammars includes informal (but rigorous) descriptions of typed-feature structure logic as well as formal definitions. The book covers the basics of grammar development by introducing different frameworks to the reader such as categorial grammar and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, and demonstrates how these can be implemented. Semantic representation is also introduced. The book includes a CD of the LKB system software that allows the reader to experiment with various grammars and learn the details of the formalism. The CD is compatible with Windows, MacOS, Linux and Solaris, and includes a full user manual.

About this title

About the Author

Ann Copestake is university lecturer and reader at University of Cambridge and senior researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University.

Stephen Robertson runs the Information Retrieval and Analysis group at Microsoft Research and is professor in the Department of Information Science at the City University of London.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1575862603
• ISBN 13: 9781575862606
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240