Defining language : a local grammar of definition sentences
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
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9789027296177, 9789027222817, 9781588112989, 9027296170, 9027222819, 1588112985
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De.ning Language; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Dedication page; Acknowledgements; Brief description; Contents; Chapter 1 Language, deWnitions and dictionaries; Chapter 2 Monolingual English dictionaries; Chapter 3 Grammars, parsers, sublanguages and local grammars; Chapter 4 Methodology; Chapter 5 The definition type taxonomy; Chapter 6 The definition language grammar and its parser; Chapter 7 Evaluation and applications; Appendix; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Bibliography; Definitions index; Names index; Terms index; The series STUDIES IN CORPUS LINGUISTICS (SCL)