Language, Cohesion And Form

Masterman, Margaret; Wilks, Yorick

ISBN 10: 0521454891 / ISBN 13: 9780521454896

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2005

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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.

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

Bibliographic Details

Title: Language, Cohesion And Form
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New