Language, cohesion and form / Margaret Masterman ; edited, with an introduction and commentaries, by Yorick Wilks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Masterman, Margaret, author.

Contributor:

Wilks, Yorick, 1939- editor.

Series:

Studies in natural language processing.

Studies in natural language processing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computational linguistics.

Natural language processing (Computer science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 312 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Language, Cohesion & Form

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Margaret Masterman was a pioneer in the field of computational linguistics. Working in the earliest days of language processing by computer, she believed that meaning, not grammar, was the key to understanding languages, and that machines could determine the meaning of sentences. She was able, even on simple machines, to undertake sophisticated experiments in machine translation, and carried out important work on the use of semantic codings and thesauri to determine the meaning structure of texts. This volume brings together Masterman's groundbreaking papers for the first time. Through his insightful commentaries, Yorick Wilks argues that Masterman came close to developing a computational theory of language meaning based on the ideas of Wittgenstein, and shows the importance of her work in the philosophy of science and the nature of iconic languages. Of key interest in computational linguistics and artificial intelligence, it will remind scholars of Masterman's significant contribution to the field.

Contents:

1. Words

2. Fans and heads

3. Classification, concept-formation and language

4. The potentialities of a mechanical thesaurus

5. What is a thesaurus?

6. 'Agricola in curvo terram dimovit arator'

7. Mechanical pidgin translation

8. Translation

9. Commentary on the Guberina hypothesis

10. Semantic algorithms

11. Braithwaite and Kuhn : analogy-clusters within and without hypothetico-deductive systems in science

Bibliography of the scientific works of Margaret Masterman.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-309) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-14151-6

1-280-41465-0

0-511-18320-8

0-511-20098-6

0-511-13678-1

0-511-31130-3

0-511-48660-X

0-511-13459-2

OCLC:

171137681