Natural Language Computing: An English Generative Grammar in Prolog

by Ray C. Dougherty

Overview

This book's main goal is to show readers how to use the linguistic theory of Noam Chomsky, called Universal Grammar, to represent English, French, and German on a computer using the Prolog computer language. In so doing, it presents a follow-the-dots approach to natural language processing, linguistic theory, artificial intelligence, and expert systems. The basic idea is to introduce meaningful answers to significant problems involved in representing human language data on a computer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134784776
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/07/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	67 MB
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About the Author

Ray C. Dougherty

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface. Introduction: What is Computational Linguistics? How to Use This Book: A Pictorial Essay. Natural Intelligence, Linguistics, and Prolog. How to Read and Write in Prolog. How to Load, Run, and Edit a Prolog Program. Tables of Data as Prolog Facts and Relations. How Prolog Backtracks in Searches. The Canonical Form of a Prolog Relation. Computational Tools for Language Processing. Computational Tools for Sentence Processing. Appendices: The Disk Included With This Book. How to Access the New York University BBS. Flavor Files. Looking into Prolog: listing, trace, and breakpoint.