This long-awaited revision offers a comprehensive introduction to natural language understanding with developments and research in the field today. Building on the effective framework of the first edition, the new edition gives the same balanced coverage of syntax, semantics, and discourse, and offers a uniform framework based on feature-based context-free grammars and chart parsers used for syntactic and semantic processing. Thorough treatment of issues in discourse and context-dependent interpretation is also provided. In addition, this title offers coverage of two entirely new subject areas. First, the text features a new chapter on statistically-based methods using large corpora. Second, it includes an appendix on speech recognition and spoken language understanding. Also, the information on semantics that was covered in the first edition has been largely expanded in this edition to include an emphasis on compositional interpretation. 0805303340B04062001
- ISBN10 0805303308
- ISBN13 9780805303308
- Publish Date 1 January 1988
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 2 October 2008
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Pearson Education (US)
- Imprint Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company, Subs of Addison Wesley Longman, Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 600
- Language English