Author: Steven Bird
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780521474962
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
This book is the first to survey current developments in computational phonology, and it does so in a way that is accessible to computational linguists, phonologists and computer scientists alike.
Computational Phonology
Author: Steven Bird
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780521474962
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
This book is the first to survey current developments in computational phonology, and it does so in a way that is accessible to computational linguists, phonologists and computer scientists alike.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780521474962
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
This book is the first to survey current developments in computational phonology, and it does so in a way that is accessible to computational linguists, phonologists and computer scientists alike.
A Computational Phonology of Russian
Author: Peter Chew
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
ISBN: 1581121784
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This dissertation provides a coherent, synchronic, broad-coverage, generative phonology of Russian. I test the grammar empirically in a number of ways to determine its goodness of fit to Russian. In taking this approach, I aim to avoid making untested (or even incoherent) generalizations based on only a handful of examples. In most cases, the tests show that there are exceptions to the theory, but at least we know what the exceptions are, a baseline is set against which future theories can be measured, and in most cases the percentage of exceptional cases is reduced to below 5%. The principal theoretical outcomes of the work are as follows. First, I show that all of the phonological or morphophonological processes reviewed can be described by a grammar no more powerful than context-free. Secondly, I exploit probabilistic constraints in the syllable structure grammar to explain why constraints on word-marginal onsets and codas are weaker than on word-internal onsets and codas. I argue that the features []/- initial] and []/- final], and extraprosodicity, are unnecessary for this purpose.
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
ISBN: 1581121784
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This dissertation provides a coherent, synchronic, broad-coverage, generative phonology of Russian. I test the grammar empirically in a number of ways to determine its goodness of fit to Russian. In taking this approach, I aim to avoid making untested (or even incoherent) generalizations based on only a handful of examples. In most cases, the tests show that there are exceptions to the theory, but at least we know what the exceptions are, a baseline is set against which future theories can be measured, and in most cases the percentage of exceptional cases is reduced to below 5%. The principal theoretical outcomes of the work are as follows. First, I show that all of the phonological or morphophonological processes reviewed can be described by a grammar no more powerful than context-free. Secondly, I exploit probabilistic constraints in the syllable structure grammar to explain why constraints on word-marginal onsets and codas are weaker than on word-internal onsets and codas. I argue that the features []/- initial] and []/- final], and extraprosodicity, are unnecessary for this purpose.
The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics
Author: Ruslan Mitkov
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019927634X
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
This handbook of computational linguistics, written for academics, graduate students and researchers, provides a state-of-the-art reference to one of the most active and productive fields in linguistics.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019927634X
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
This handbook of computational linguistics, written for academics, graduate students and researchers, provides a state-of-the-art reference to one of the most active and productive fields in linguistics.
Introduction to Computational Linguistics and its use for medical translations in the universities of Health Sciences
Author: Dr. Muhammad Khalid Mehmood Sajid
Publisher: Dr. Muhammad Khalid Mehmood Sajid
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
This book is written by Dr. Muhammad Khalid Mehmood Sajid on computational linguistics and its use for medical translations in the universities of health sciences. This book has 15 chapters, 103 pages with a title and back cover page which describes the bio of Dr. Muhammad Khalid Mehmood Sajid who is the main and key author of this book. Dr. Muhammad Khalid Mehmood Sajid has a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Universiti Malaysia Pahang and is a Post-doc Fellow. Being an international scholar and educationist, he has over 20 years of English teaching experience in Pakistani and Saudi Arabian Universities. He also taught in UAE, Malaysia, and Sultanate of Oman. He had been a lecturer at Qassim University. He also worked as a faculty member at King Faisal University. He was an Academic Coordinator in Army College Rawalpindi and a lecturer at Pakistan Airforce College, Islamabad. Presently, he is working as English faculty in the College of Applied Medical Sciences, English Department, King Saud Bin Abdul Aziz University for Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia. His high-quality research papers were published in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Malaysia, India, Pakistan, USA, Canada, Turkey, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the Philippines. He is also a recommended research writer and an author of Scopus, Web of Science. Having high Google Scholar citations, he is also a member of the research board and a reviewer of many international, Scopus and Web of Science journals. Moreover, he is also an English article writer and founder of the Applied Linguistics Group.
Publisher: Dr. Muhammad Khalid Mehmood Sajid
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
This book is written by Dr. Muhammad Khalid Mehmood Sajid on computational linguistics and its use for medical translations in the universities of health sciences. This book has 15 chapters, 103 pages with a title and back cover page which describes the bio of Dr. Muhammad Khalid Mehmood Sajid who is the main and key author of this book. Dr. Muhammad Khalid Mehmood Sajid has a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Universiti Malaysia Pahang and is a Post-doc Fellow. Being an international scholar and educationist, he has over 20 years of English teaching experience in Pakistani and Saudi Arabian Universities. He also taught in UAE, Malaysia, and Sultanate of Oman. He had been a lecturer at Qassim University. He also worked as a faculty member at King Faisal University. He was an Academic Coordinator in Army College Rawalpindi and a lecturer at Pakistan Airforce College, Islamabad. Presently, he is working as English faculty in the College of Applied Medical Sciences, English Department, King Saud Bin Abdul Aziz University for Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia. His high-quality research papers were published in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Malaysia, India, Pakistan, USA, Canada, Turkey, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the Philippines. He is also a recommended research writer and an author of Scopus, Web of Science. Having high Google Scholar citations, he is also a member of the research board and a reviewer of many international, Scopus and Web of Science journals. Moreover, he is also an English article writer and founder of the Applied Linguistics Group.
Morphology and Computation
Author: Richard William Sproat
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262193146
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book provides the first broad yet thorough coverage of issues in morphological theory. It includes a wide array of techniques and systems in computational morphology (including discussion of their limitations), and describes some unusual applications.Sproat motivates the study of computational morphology by arguing that a computational natural language system, such as a parser or a generator, must incorporate a model of morphology. He discusses a range of applications for programs with knowledge of morphology, some of which are not generally found in the literature. Sproat then provides an overview of some of the basic descriptive facts about morphology and issues in theoretical morphology and (lexical) phonology, as well as psycholinguistic evidence for human processing of morphological structure. He take up the basic techniques that have been proposed for doing morphological processing and discusses at length various systems (such as DECOMP and KIMMO) that incorporate part or all of those techniques, pointing out the inadequacies of such systems from both a descriptive and a computational point of view. He concludes by touching on interesting peripheral areas such as the analysis of complex nominals in English, and on the main contributions of Rumelhart and McClelland's connectionism to the computational analysis of words.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262193146
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book provides the first broad yet thorough coverage of issues in morphological theory. It includes a wide array of techniques and systems in computational morphology (including discussion of their limitations), and describes some unusual applications.Sproat motivates the study of computational morphology by arguing that a computational natural language system, such as a parser or a generator, must incorporate a model of morphology. He discusses a range of applications for programs with knowledge of morphology, some of which are not generally found in the literature. Sproat then provides an overview of some of the basic descriptive facts about morphology and issues in theoretical morphology and (lexical) phonology, as well as psycholinguistic evidence for human processing of morphological structure. He take up the basic techniques that have been proposed for doing morphological processing and discusses at length various systems (such as DECOMP and KIMMO) that incorporate part or all of those techniques, pointing out the inadequacies of such systems from both a descriptive and a computational point of view. He concludes by touching on interesting peripheral areas such as the analysis of complex nominals in English, and on the main contributions of Rumelhart and McClelland's connectionism to the computational analysis of words.
The Oxford History of Phonology
Author: B. Elan Dresher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198796803
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
This volume is the first to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive history of phonology from the earliest known examples of phonological thinking, through the rise of phonology as a field in the twentieth century, and up to the most recent advances. The volume is divided into five parts. Part I offers an account of writing systems along with chapters exploring the great ancient and medieval intellectual traditions of phonological thought that form the foundation of later thinking and continue to enrich phonological theory. Chapters in Part II describe the important schools and individuals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who shaped phonology as an organized scientific field. Part III examines mid-twentieth century developments in phonology in the Soviet Union, Northern and Western Europe, and North America; it continues with precursors to generative grammar, and culminates in a chapter on Chomsky and Halle's The Sound Pattern of English (SPE). Part IV then shows how phonological theorists responded to SPE with respect to derivations, representations, and phonology-morphology interaction. Theories discussed include Dependency Phonology, Government Phonology, Constraint-and-Repair theories, and Optimality Theory. The part ends with a chapter on the study of variation. Finally, chapters in Part V look at new methods and approaches, covering phonetic explanation, corpora and phonological analysis, probabilistic phonology, computational modelling, models of phonological learning, and the evolution of phonology. This in-depth exploration of the history of phonology provides new perspectives on where phonology has been and sheds light on where it could go next.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198796803
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
This volume is the first to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive history of phonology from the earliest known examples of phonological thinking, through the rise of phonology as a field in the twentieth century, and up to the most recent advances. The volume is divided into five parts. Part I offers an account of writing systems along with chapters exploring the great ancient and medieval intellectual traditions of phonological thought that form the foundation of later thinking and continue to enrich phonological theory. Chapters in Part II describe the important schools and individuals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who shaped phonology as an organized scientific field. Part III examines mid-twentieth century developments in phonology in the Soviet Union, Northern and Western Europe, and North America; it continues with precursors to generative grammar, and culminates in a chapter on Chomsky and Halle's The Sound Pattern of English (SPE). Part IV then shows how phonological theorists responded to SPE with respect to derivations, representations, and phonology-morphology interaction. Theories discussed include Dependency Phonology, Government Phonology, Constraint-and-Repair theories, and Optimality Theory. The part ends with a chapter on the study of variation. Finally, chapters in Part V look at new methods and approaches, covering phonetic explanation, corpora and phonological analysis, probabilistic phonology, computational modelling, models of phonological learning, and the evolution of phonology. This in-depth exploration of the history of phonology provides new perspectives on where phonology has been and sheds light on where it could go next.
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Author: Dr. Praveen Kumar Mannepalli
Publisher: Xoffencerpublication
ISBN: 8197052751
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
There is a growing need for the intelligent processing of unstructured text data, which includes the extraction of various forms of information from it, since the amount of unstructured text data that mankind creates generally & on the Internet continues to evolve. In order to address a variety of higher-level language issues, the goal of my study is to create learning models that are capable of independently producing representations of human language, namely its structure and meaning. my is for the purpose of my thesis. When it comes to the delivery of technologies in the field of natural language processing (NLP), a significant amount of progress has been made. These technologies include the extraction of information from large amounts of unstructured data on the internet, the analysis of sentiment in social networks, and the grammatical analysis of essays for the purpose of grading. The creation of universal & scalable algorithms that are capable of jointly solving these problems & learning the appropriate intermediate representations of the linguistic units involved is that which is one of the aims of natural language processing. Standard ways to achieving this objective, on the other hand, suffer from two basic deficiencies.
Publisher: Xoffencerpublication
ISBN: 8197052751
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
There is a growing need for the intelligent processing of unstructured text data, which includes the extraction of various forms of information from it, since the amount of unstructured text data that mankind creates generally & on the Internet continues to evolve. In order to address a variety of higher-level language issues, the goal of my study is to create learning models that are capable of independently producing representations of human language, namely its structure and meaning. my is for the purpose of my thesis. When it comes to the delivery of technologies in the field of natural language processing (NLP), a significant amount of progress has been made. These technologies include the extraction of information from large amounts of unstructured data on the internet, the analysis of sentiment in social networks, and the grammatical analysis of essays for the purpose of grading. The creation of universal & scalable algorithms that are capable of jointly solving these problems & learning the appropriate intermediate representations of the linguistic units involved is that which is one of the aims of natural language processing. Standard ways to achieving this objective, on the other hand, suffer from two basic deficiencies.
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
Author: William Frawley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195139771
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 2198
Book Description
The International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd Edition encompasses the full range of the contemporary field of linguistics, including historical, comparative, formal, mathematical, functional, and philosophical linguistics with special attention given to interrelations within branches of linguistics and to relations of linguistics with other disciplines. Areas of intersection with the social and behavioral sciences--ethnolinguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and behavioral linguistics--receive major coverage, along with interdisciplinary work in language and literature, mathematical linguistics, computational linguistics, and applied linguistics.Longer entries in the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, ranging up to four thousand words, survey the major fields of study--for example, anthropological linguistics, history of linguistics, semantics, and phonetics. Shorter entries treat specific topics within these fields, such as code switching, sound symbolism, and syntactic features. Other short entries define and discuss technical terms used within the various subfields or provide sketches of the careers of important scholars in the history of linguistics, such as Leonard Bloomfield, Roman Jakobson, and Edward Sapir.A major portion of the work is its extensive coverage of languages and language families. From those as familiar as English, Japanese, and the Romance languages to Hittite, Yoruba, and Nahuatl, all corners of the world receive treatment. Languages that are the subject of independent entries are analyzed in terms of their phonology, grammatical features, syntax, and writing systems. Lists attached to each article on a language group or family enumerate all languages, extinct or still spoken, within that group and provide detailed information on the number of known speakers, geographical range, and degree of intelligibility with other languages in the group. In this way, virtually every known language receives coverage.For ease of reference and to aid research, the articles are alphabetically arranged, each signed by the contributor, supported by up-to-date bibliographies, line drawings, maps, tables, and diagrams, and readily accessible via a system of cross-references and a detailed index and synoptic outline. Authoritative, comprehensive, and innovative, the 2nd edition of the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics will be an indispensable addition to personal, public, academic, and research libraries and will introduce a new generation of readers to the complexities and concerns of this field of study.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195139771
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 2198
Book Description
The International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd Edition encompasses the full range of the contemporary field of linguistics, including historical, comparative, formal, mathematical, functional, and philosophical linguistics with special attention given to interrelations within branches of linguistics and to relations of linguistics with other disciplines. Areas of intersection with the social and behavioral sciences--ethnolinguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and behavioral linguistics--receive major coverage, along with interdisciplinary work in language and literature, mathematical linguistics, computational linguistics, and applied linguistics.Longer entries in the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, ranging up to four thousand words, survey the major fields of study--for example, anthropological linguistics, history of linguistics, semantics, and phonetics. Shorter entries treat specific topics within these fields, such as code switching, sound symbolism, and syntactic features. Other short entries define and discuss technical terms used within the various subfields or provide sketches of the careers of important scholars in the history of linguistics, such as Leonard Bloomfield, Roman Jakobson, and Edward Sapir.A major portion of the work is its extensive coverage of languages and language families. From those as familiar as English, Japanese, and the Romance languages to Hittite, Yoruba, and Nahuatl, all corners of the world receive treatment. Languages that are the subject of independent entries are analyzed in terms of their phonology, grammatical features, syntax, and writing systems. Lists attached to each article on a language group or family enumerate all languages, extinct or still spoken, within that group and provide detailed information on the number of known speakers, geographical range, and degree of intelligibility with other languages in the group. In this way, virtually every known language receives coverage.For ease of reference and to aid research, the articles are alphabetically arranged, each signed by the contributor, supported by up-to-date bibliographies, line drawings, maps, tables, and diagrams, and readily accessible via a system of cross-references and a detailed index and synoptic outline. Authoritative, comprehensive, and innovative, the 2nd edition of the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics will be an indispensable addition to personal, public, academic, and research libraries and will introduce a new generation of readers to the complexities and concerns of this field of study.
Phonological Typology
Author: Larry M. Hyman
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311045193X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Despite earlier work by Trubetzkoy, Jakobson and Greenberg, phonological typology is often underrepresented in typology textbooks. At the same time, most phonologists do not see a difference between phonological typology and cross-linguistic (formal) phonology. The purpose of this book is to bring together leading scholars to address the issue of phonological typology, both in terms of the unity and the diversity of phonological systems.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311045193X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Despite earlier work by Trubetzkoy, Jakobson and Greenberg, phonological typology is often underrepresented in typology textbooks. At the same time, most phonologists do not see a difference between phonological typology and cross-linguistic (formal) phonology. The purpose of this book is to bring together leading scholars to address the issue of phonological typology, both in terms of the unity and the diversity of phonological systems.
Time Map Phonology
Author: J. Carson-Berndsen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401735344
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This book is a revised version of my doctoral thesis which was submitted in April 1993. The main extension is a chapter on evaluation of the system de scribed in Chapter 8 as this is clearly an issue which was not treated in the original version. This required the collection of data, the development of a concept for diagnostic evaluation of linguistic word recognition systems and, of course, the actual evaluation of the system itself. The revisions made primarily concern the presentation of the latest version of the SILPA system described in an additional Subsection 8. 3, the development environment for SILPA in Sec tion 8. 4, the diagnostic evaluation of the system as an additional Chapter 9. Some updates are included in the discussion of phonology and computation in Chapter 2 and finite state techniques in computational phonology in Chapter 3. The thesis was designed primarily as a contribution to the area of compu tational phonology. However, it addresses issues which are relevant within the disciplines of general linguistics, computational linguistics and, in particular, speech technology, in providing a detailed declarative, computationally inter preted linguistic model for application in spoken language processing. Time Map Phonology is a novel, constraint-based approach based on a two-stage temporal interpretation of phonological categories as events.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401735344
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This book is a revised version of my doctoral thesis which was submitted in April 1993. The main extension is a chapter on evaluation of the system de scribed in Chapter 8 as this is clearly an issue which was not treated in the original version. This required the collection of data, the development of a concept for diagnostic evaluation of linguistic word recognition systems and, of course, the actual evaluation of the system itself. The revisions made primarily concern the presentation of the latest version of the SILPA system described in an additional Subsection 8. 3, the development environment for SILPA in Sec tion 8. 4, the diagnostic evaluation of the system as an additional Chapter 9. Some updates are included in the discussion of phonology and computation in Chapter 2 and finite state techniques in computational phonology in Chapter 3. The thesis was designed primarily as a contribution to the area of compu tational phonology. However, it addresses issues which are relevant within the disciplines of general linguistics, computational linguistics and, in particular, speech technology, in providing a detailed declarative, computationally inter preted linguistic model for application in spoken language processing. Time Map Phonology is a novel, constraint-based approach based on a two-stage temporal interpretation of phonological categories as events.