By Ray C. Dougherty
ISBN-10: 0805815252
ISBN-13: 9780805815252
ISBN-10: 0805815260
ISBN-13: 9780805815269
This book's major aim is to teach readers tips to use the linguistic thought of Noam Chomsky, referred to as common Grammar, to symbolize English, French, and German on a working laptop or computer utilizing the Prolog laptop language. In so doing, it provides a follow-the-dots method of average language processing, linguistic idea, man made intelligence, and specialist platforms. the fundamental thought is to introduce significant solutions to major difficulties enthusiastic about representing human language info on a working laptop or computer.
The ebook deals a hands-on method of someone who needs to realize a viewpoint on natural language processing -- the computational research of human language info. the entire examples are illustrated utilizing laptop courses. The optimum approach for someone to start is to run those latest courses to achieve an figuring out of the way they paintings. After gaining familiarity, readers can start to adjust the courses, and at last write their own.
The first six chapters take a reader who hasn't ever heard of non-procedural, backtracking, declarative languages like Prolog and, utilizing 29 complete web page diagrams and seventy five courses, element how you can signify a lexicon of English on a working laptop or computer. A bibliography is programmed right into a Prolog database to teach how linguists can control the symbols utilized in formal representations, together with braces and brackets. the subsequent 3 chapters use seventy four complete web page diagrams and 38 courses to teach how facts constructions (subcategorization, choice, word marker) and tactics (top-down, bottom-up, parsing, recursion) the most important in Chomsky's conception should be explicitly formulated right into a constraint-based grammar and applied in Prolog. The Prolog interpreters supplied with the booklet are primarily just like the costly Prologs, yet they lack the rate and reminiscence capacities. they're perfect on the grounds that something discovered approximately those Prologs contains over unmodified to C-Prolog and Quintas at the mainframes. someone who reviews the prolog implementations of the lexicons and syntactic ideas of mixture may be in a position to use Prolog to symbolize their very own linguistic information at the most complicated Prolog laptop to be had, even if their information derive from syntactic conception, semantics, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, language acquisition, language studying, or a few similar quarter within which the grammatical styles of phrases and words are extra the most important than strategies of volume.
The published examples illustrate C-Prolog on an Ultrix Vax, a regular college configuration. The disk incorporated with the e-book includes shareware model of Prolog-2 (IBM computing device) and MacProlog (Macintosh) plus types of the courses that run on C-Prolog, Quintas, Prolog-2, and MacProlog. Appendix II comprises information regarding how one can use the web, Gopher, CompuServe, and the loose extra BBS to obtain the newest copies of Prolog, courses, lexicons, and parsers. All figures (100+) within the publication can be found scaled to make complete measurement transparencies for sophistication lectures.
Valuable particular good points of this quantity comprise:
* greater than a hundred complete web page diagrams illustrating the elemental thoughts of average language processing, Prolog, and Chomsky's linguistic theories;
* greater than a hundred courses -- illustrated in no less than one script dossier -- displaying tips on how to encode the representations and derivations of generative grammar into Prolog;
* greater than a hundred consultation documents guiding readers via their very own hands-on classes with the courses illustrating Chomsky's concept;
* a 3.5" disk (IBM layout) containing:
1. all courses in models to run in C-Prolog or Quintas Prolog on an Ultrix Vax, and on an IBM computing device and a Macintosh,
2. a shareware model of Prolog-2 for IBM computer clones which runs all courses within the publication,
3. a shareware model of MacProlog for Macintosh which runs all courses within the publication;
* directions on utilizing web, CompuServe, and the unfastened extra BBS to obtain the newest copies of Prolog, courses, lexicons, and parsers; and
* quite a few references permitting scholars to pursue questions at better intensity through consulting the goods within the wide bibliography.
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