Defining Language: A local grammar of definition sentencesJohn Benjamins Publishing, 2002 M10 24 - 281 páginas Definition is a basic activity of language, of particular importance to linguists because of its use of language to describe itself. Beyond this inherent significance as a crucial element of language study, definitions also provide a rich potential source of the information needed for Natural Language Processing systems. This book describes an investigation of the subset of general language used in definition sentences and the development of a taxonomy of definition types, a grammar of definition sentences and parsing software which can extract their functional components. The work is based on definition sentences used in one of the dictionaries from the Cobuild range, and the book includes a brief history of the development of monolingual English dictionaries, an assessment of the concepts of sublanguages and local grammars and a full exploration of the results of the analysis and of the present and future applications of the taxonomy, grammar and parser. |
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... basis of this study. If the contents of these entries can be made available to a computer in a readily accessible form, they can also provide extremely valuable data for use in natural language processing systems. Meijs (1994, p. 69) ...
... basis of this study. If the contents of these entries can be made available to a computer in a readily accessible form, they can also provide extremely valuable data for use in natural language processing systems. Meijs (1994, p. 69) ...
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... basis of alphabetic reference within the dictionary pronunciation guides other forms of the headword, showing both regular and irregular morphology Both the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary ofCurrent English (OALDCE, Cowie, 1989a, p ...
... basis of alphabetic reference within the dictionary pronunciation guides other forms of the headword, showing both regular and irregular morphology Both the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary ofCurrent English (OALDCE, Cowie, 1989a, p ...
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... basis for the investigation of definition language for two main reasons. Firstly, there are no grounds to suppose that the full range of definition structures are not present in CCSD despite the restricted number of headwords. The basis ...
... basis for the investigation of definition language for two main reasons. Firstly, there are no grounds to suppose that the full range of definition structures are not present in CCSD despite the restricted number of headwords. The basis ...
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... basis for the description of this area of language use and allowing the extraction of information for use in natural language processing systems and other applications. In order to explore the ways in which these twin objectives should ...
... basis for the description of this area of language use and allowing the extraction of information for use in natural language processing systems and other applications. In order to explore the ways in which these twin objectives should ...
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... basis for examining the differences between the Cobuild use of metalanguage and the conventions ofthe other dictionaries. Piotrowski (1989, pp. 73—74) suggests two ways of considering the mean— ing of lexical items which seem in some ...
... basis for examining the differences between the Cobuild use of metalanguage and the conventions ofthe other dictionaries. Piotrowski (1989, pp. 73—74) suggests two ways of considering the mean— ing of lexical items which seem in some ...
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Chapter 3 Grammars parsers sublanguages and local grammars | 59 |
Chapter 4 Methodology | 97 |
Chapter 5 The definition type taxonomy | 135 |
Chapter 6 The definition language grammar and its parser | 161 |
Chapter 7 Evaluation and applications | 213 |
Appendix | 253 |
Appendix 2 | 257 |
Appendix 3 | 263 |
Bibliography | 269 |
Definitions index | 273 |
Names index | 278 |
Terms index | 279 |
The series STUDIES IN CORPUS LINGUISTICS SCL | 281 |
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Defining Language: A Local Grammar of Definition Sentences Geoff Barnbrook Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
Defining Language: A Local Grammar of Definition Sentences Geoff Barnbrook Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
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