Michael A. Covington, University of Georgia

Published August, 1993 by Prentice Hall Engineering/Science/Mathematics

Copyright 1994, 348 pp.
Cloth
ISBN 0-13-629213-5

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An examination of natural language processing in Prolog for those who know Prolog but not linguistics.




enables readers to move quickly into writing working, useful software.
features an abundance of working computer programs that implement subsystems of a natural language processor. The programs are compatible with an Edinburg-compatible Prolog implementation (Quintus, ESL, Arity, ALS, etc.).
offers broad coverage of natural language processing — including simple-but-practical database query systems, syntax, formal semantics, and morphology.
provides many hands-on Prolog programming exercises.

1. Natural Language.
2. Templates and Keywords.
3. Define-Clause Grammars.
4. English Phrase Structure.
5. Unification-Based Grammar.
6. Parsing Algorithms.
7. Semantics, Logic, and Model Theory.
8. Further Topics in Semantics.
9. Morphology and the Lexicon.
Appendix A: A Review of Prolog.
Appendix B: String Input and Tokenization.
Bibliography.
Index.

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