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Representation and Inference for Natural Language: A First Course in Computational Semantics

Center for Creative Leadership, 2005

This book developed out of courses on computational semantics that the authors jointly taught at the Department of Computational Linguistics, University of the Saarland, Saarbrucken, Germany, in 1995 and 1998, and at ESSLLI'97, the 9th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Aix-en-Provence, France, in...

Applications of Mathematics in Models, Artificial Neural Networks and Arts: Mathematics and Society

Springer, 2010

The book shows a very original organization addressing in a non traditional way, but with a systematic approach, to who has an interest in using mathematics in the social sciences.

The book is divided in four parts: (a) a historical part, written by Vittorio Capecchi which helps us understand the changes in the relationship between...

An Introduction to the Theory of Formal Languages and Automata

John Benjamins Publishing, 2008

In the latter half of the 1950’s, Noam Chomsky began to develop mathematical models for the description of natural languages. Two disciplines originated in his work and have grown to maturity. The first of these is the theory of formal grammars, a branch of mathematics which has proven to be of great interest to information and computer...

Dialogue with Bakhtin on Second and Foreign Language Learning: New Perspectives

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

This volume is the first to explore links between the Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin's theoretical insights about language and practical concerns with second and foreign language learning and teaching. Situated within a strong conceptual framework and drawing from a rich empirical base, it reflects recent scholarship in applied linguistics that...

The Structure of Scientific Examination Questions (SpringerBriefs in Education)

Springer, 2013

This book shows how Systemic Functional Linguistics may be used to explore and explain the grammar of scientific examination questions. The author outlines the key elements of this theory and identifies problematical structures that affect the linguistic validity of such education assessment questions. This book also shows how...

Doctor Dolittle's Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Language

Yale University Press, 2004

Dr. Dolittle—and many students of animal communication—are wrong: animals cannot use language. This fascinating book explains why. Can animals be taught a human language and use it to communicate? Or is human language unique to human beings, just as many complex behaviors of other species are uniquely theirs? This engrossing book...

Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 10th International Conference, ITS 2010, Pittsburgh, PA

Springer, 2010

The 10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2010, continued the bi-annual series of top-flight international conferences on the use of advanced educational technologies that are adaptive to users or groups of users. These highly interdisciplinary conferences bring together researchers in the learning sciences,...

The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication brings together internationally-renowned scholars from a range of fields to survey the theoretical perspectives and applied work, including example analyses, in this burgeoning area of linguistics.

Features contributions from established researchers in...

The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders

MIT Press, 2003

A massive reference work on the scale of MITECS (The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences), The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders will become the standard reference in this field for both research and clinical use. It offers almost 200 detailed entries, covering the entire range of communication and speech disorders in...

The Syntax of Chinese (Cambridge Syntax Guides)

Cambridge University Press, 2009

The past quarter of a century has seen a surge in Chinese syntactic research that has produced a sizeable literature on the analysis of almost every construction in Mandarin Chinese. This guide to Chinese syntax analyses the majority of constructions in Chinese that have featured in theoretical linguistics in the past 25 years, using the...

Psychology of Language: From Data to Theory

Psychology Press, 2001

'In my opinion this book is a gem. It is more up to date, covers a wider range of material [than the competition] and is excellently written... a comprehensive review of this complex field, it's a certain choice for undergraduate students. It also points the more advanced student towards a radical new agenda for psycholinguistics, in which...

Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 10th International Conference, ITS 2010, Pittsburgh, PA

Springer, 2010

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