Natural Language Computing: An English Generative Grammar in Prolog (Hardcover)

by Ray C. Dougherty (Author)

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Product Description
The main goal of this text and disk is to show readers how to use the linguistic theory of Noam Chomsky, "Universal Grammar", to represent English, French and German on a computer using Prolog. It presents a simple approach to natural language processing with the eventual aim of creating programs.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum; 1 edition (November 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805815252
• ISBN-13: 978-0805815252
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,175,817 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must for anyone interested in natural language computing, February 5, 2005

By	Tom Lacy (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

Written by a student of Noam Chomsky, this book introduces the classic approach to natural language processing using Prolog. Prolog is a programming language used for writing programs that model human logic and decision making. It is particalarly well suited for natural language processing. The book assumes very limited computer programming knowledge, and should be especially useful to linguists who want to introduce themselves to natural language computing.

The book begins with an indepth discussion of the old and the new theory of the computer intelligence and artificial intelligence machines. Then it goes on to discusses topics such as, different levels of human language structure, morphological parsers, recursion (affixes on the affixes), regular and irregular morphology, rule governed creativity, top down and bottom up parsing. Practically every linguistic phenomenon discussed is accompanied with an example Prolog program.

This book is a must-have for any student of linguistics wishing to learn how to use the AI features of Prolog to do natural language computing.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Natural Language :: Great Book, September 9, 2005

By	Clivens Laguerre - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It's a great book and easy to read. I am learning alot from it.