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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... contained in the Collins Cobuild Student's Dictionary. It examines the usefulness of the information provided by dictionaries in natural language processing work and the nature of the language used in dictionary definitions in general ...
... contained in the Collins Cobuild Student's Dictionary. It examines the usefulness of the information provided by dictionaries in natural language processing work and the nature of the language used in dictionary definitions in general ...
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... contained in the definitions to be accessed more readily. The reasons for doing this are considered next. 1.2 Why parse dictionary entries? The information provided by dictionary entries is often presented in a complex, highly ...
... contained in the definitions to be accessed more readily. The reasons for doing this are considered next. 1.2 Why parse dictionary entries? The information provided by dictionary entries is often presented in a complex, highly ...
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... contain additional information on possible syntactic combinations. The definition sentences explain the meaning of the word by incorporating it within them, distinguished from the other words ofthe sentences by being in bold type. The ...
... contain additional information on possible syntactic combinations. The definition sentences explain the meaning of the word by incorporating it within them, distinguished from the other words ofthe sentences by being in bold type. The ...
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... contain different elements of information for their headwords. As an extreme example, the Oxford English Dictionary entry ... contained in published dictionaries is no doubt interpreted and isolated by the dictionary's human users with ...
... contain different elements of information for their headwords. As an extreme example, the Oxford English Dictionary entry ... contained in published dictionaries is no doubt interpreted and isolated by the dictionary's human users with ...
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... contained one vocabulary for machine translation which contained between 5,000 and 6,000 words: the average size ofthe lexica used by the other projects was about 25 words. They also (p. 11) describe the problems ofthose large lexica ...
... contained one vocabulary for machine translation which contained between 5,000 and 6,000 words: the average size ofthe lexica used by the other projects was about 25 words. They also (p. 11) describe the problems ofthose large lexica ...
Contenido
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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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