The Language Complexity Game
Language: English
Published by MIT Press, Boston, 1993
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23.0 x 15.0cms, 150pp. This book establishes a conceptually coherent & technically sound framework for the computational study of human language.
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- Title
- The Language Complexity Game
- Author
- Eric Sven Ristad
- Publisher
- MIT Press, Boston
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- Very Good
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- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0262181479
- ISBN 13
- 9780262181471
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- Linguistics
Ristad argues that language is the process of constructing linguistic representations from the forms produced by other cognitive modules and that this process is NP-complete.
This NP-completeness is defended with a phalanx of elegant and revealing proofs that rely only on the empirical facts of linguistic knowledge and on the uncontroverted assumption that these facts generalize in a reasonable manner. For this reason, these complexity results apply to all adequate linguistic theories and are the first to do so.
Eric Sven Ristad is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He is the coauthor of Computational Complexity and Natural Language.
Contents: Foundation of the Investigation. Anaphora. Ellipsis. Phonology. Syntactic Agreement and Lexical Ambiguity. Philosophical Issues.
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