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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... problem items 123 4.3.3 Combination of similar categories 125 4.4 Development of the grammar and parser 126 4.4.1 ... Problems with the analysis of the second part 140 5.3 The development of the definition analysis model 143 5.3.1 ...
... problem items 123 4.3.3 Combination of similar categories 125 4.4 Development of the grammar and parser 126 4.4.1 ... Problems with the analysis of the second part 140 5.3 The development of the definition analysis model 143 5.3.1 ...
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... problems that they would pose for automatic analysis systems. Despite these problems, it seems from the interest shown in the use of machine-readable published dictionaries that they have significant potential value for natural language ...
... problems that they would pose for automatic analysis systems. Despite these problems, it seems from the interest shown in the use of machine-readable published dictionaries that they have significant potential value for natural language ...
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... problems ofthose large lexica which had been developed by 1989 when they needed to be extended to more generalised applications than the very specific tasks for which they had been designed. As explained in detail in Chapter 7, for ...
... problems ofthose large lexica which had been developed by 1989 when they needed to be extended to more generalised applications than the very specific tasks for which they had been designed. As explained in detail in Chapter 7, for ...
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... problems which this distinction, together with the related division between object language and metalanguage, may assist with, and the further difficulties that can arise from the use of these distinctions. These difficulties arise from ...
... problems which this distinction, together with the related division between object language and metalanguage, may assist with, and the further difficulties that can arise from the use of these distinctions. These difficulties arise from ...
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... problem of taboo words, since the use of a similar form for a word like 'cunt' would give completely the wrong message in the first part of the definition, and the proper approach to problems ofthis kind is almost certainly the use of a ...
... problem of taboo words, since the use of a similar form for a word like 'cunt' would give completely the wrong message in the first part of the definition, and the proper approach to problems ofthis kind is almost certainly the use of a ...
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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