Semantics-Oriented Natural Language Processing: Mathematical Models and Algorithms / Edition 1

by Vladimir Fomichov A.

Overview

Gluecklich, die wissen, dass hinter allen Sprachen das Unsaegliche steht. Those are happy who know that behind all languages there is something unsaid Rainer Maria Rilke This book shows in a new way that a solution to a fundamental problem from one scientific field can help to find the solutions to important problems emerged in several other fields of science and technology. In modern science, the term “Natural Language” denotes the collection of all such languages that every language is used as a primary means of communication by people belonging to any country or any region. So Natural Language (NL) includes, in particular, the English, Russian, and German languages. The applied computer systems processing natural language printed or written texts (NL-texts) or oral speech with respect to the fact that the words are associated with some meanings are called semantics-oriented natural language processing systems (NLPSs). On one hand, this book is a snapshot of the current stage of a research p- gram started many years ago and called Integral Formal Semantics (IFS) of NL. The goal of this program has been to develop the formal models and methods he- ing to overcome the difficulties of logical character associated with the engineering of semantics-oriented NLPSs. The designers of such systems of arbitrary kinds will find in this book the formal means and algorithms being of great help in their work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387729244
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	12/04/2009
Series:	IFSR International Series in Systems Science and Systems Engineering , #27
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

I A Comprehensive Mathematical Framework for the Development of Semantic Technologies.- Mathematical Models for Designing Natural Language Processing Systems as a New Field of Studies for Systems Science.- to Integral Formal Semantics of Natural Language.- A Mathematical Model for Describing a System of Primary Units of Conceptual Level Used by Applied Intelligent Systems.- A Mathematical Model for Describing Structured Meanings of Natural Language Sentences and Discourses.- A Study of the Expressive Possibilities of SK-Languages.- The Significance of a New Mathematical Model for Web Science, E-science, and E-commerce.- II FormalMethods and Algorithms for the Design of Semantics-Oriented Linguistic Processors.- A Mathematical Model of a Linguistic Database.- A New Method of Transforming Texts into Semantic Representations.- Algorithm of Building a Matrix Semantic-Syntactic Representation of a Natural Language Text.- An Algorithm of Semantic Representation Assembly.- Natural Language Processing Applications.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

“The book is focused on two areas of research. First of all, it offers theoretical insights into a recent research program concerned with the development of formal models and methodologies … . Second, and from a practical perspective, it puts forward efficient tools to develop semantic technologies … . The book provides interesting theoretical and practical guidance for overcoming the problems associated with the design of semantics-oriented natural language processing systems in different real-world fields, being thus a valuable source for experienced researchers … .” (Catalin Stoean, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1195, 2010)

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