The balancing act : combining symbolic and statistical approaches to language / edited by Judith L. Klavans and Philip Resnik.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Klavans, Judith L.

Resnik, Philip.

Association for Computational Linguistics.

Conference Name:

Association for Computational Linguistics (32nd : 1994 : New Mexico State University)

Series:

Language, speech, and communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computational linguistics--Congresses.

Computational linguistics.

Linguistics--Statistical methods--Congresses.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 186 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Symbolic and statistical approaches to language have historically been at odds - the former viewed as difficult to test and therefore perhaps impossible to define, and the latter as descriptive but possibly inadequate. At the heart of the debate are fundamental questions concerning the nature of language, the role of data in building a model or theory, and the impact of the competence-performance distinction on the field of computational linguistics. There is an increasing realization in both camps that the two approaches have something to offer in achieving common goals.

Notes:

Selected papers, rev., of a workshop held at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, N.M., on July 1, 1994.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-585-02119-8

0-262-27723-9

OCLC:

42854183