Title:
Natural language understanding
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Publication Information:
Menlo Park, Calif. : Benjamin/Cummings, 1987
ISBN:
9780805303308
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Summary
Summary
From a leading authority in artificial intelligence, this book delivers a synthesis of the major modern techniques and the most current research in natural language processing. The approach is unique in its coverage of semantic interpretation and discourse alongside the foundational material in syntactic processing.
Table of Contents
| 1 Introduction to Natural Language Understanding |
| The Study of Language |
| Applications of Natural Language Understanding |
| Evaluating Language Understanding Systems |
| The Different Levels of Language Analysis |
| Representations and Understanding |
| The Organization of Natural Language Understanding Systems |
| 2 Linguistic Background: An Outline of English Syntax |
| Words |
| The Elements of Simple Noun Phrases |
| Verb Phrases and Simple Sentences |
| Noun Phrases Revisited |
| Adjective Phrases |
| Adverbial Phrases |
| 3 Grammars and Parsing |
| Grammars and Sentence Structure |
| What Makes a Good Grammar |
| A Top-Down Parser |
| A Bottom-Up Chart Parser |
| Top-Down Chart Parsing |
| Finite State Models and Morphological Processing |
| Grammars and Logic Programming |
| 4 Features and Augmented Grammars |
| Feature Systems and Augmented Grammars |
| Some Basic Feature Systems for English |
| Morphological Analysis and the Lexicon |
| A Simple Grammar Using Features |
| Parsing with Features |
| Augmented Transition Networks |
| Definite Clause Grammars |
| Generalized Feature Systems and Unification Grammars |
| 5 Grammars for Natural Language |
| Auxiliary Verbs and Verb Phrases |
| Movement Phenomena in Language |
| Handling Questions in Context-Free Grammars |
| Noun Phrases and Relative Clauses |
| The Hold Mechanism in ATN |
| Gap Threading |
| 6 Toward Efficient Parsing |
| Human Preferences in Parsing |
| Encoding Uncertainty: Shift-Reduce Parsers |
| A Deterministic Parser |
| Techniques for Efficient Encoding of Ambiguity |
| Partial Parsing |
| 7 Ambiguity Resolution: Statistical Methods |
| Basic Probability Theory |
| Estimating Probabilities |
| Part-of-Speech Tagging |
| Obtaining Lexical Probabilities |
| Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars |
| Best-First Parsing |
| A Simple Context-Dependent Best-First Parser |
| 8 Semantics and Logical Form |
| Semantics and Logical Form |
