This book describes Word Manager (WM), a lexical database system intended to serve a wide range of NLP applications. The most striking aspect of WM itself, and of this presentation, is its windowed user interface. The book consists of five chapters ('Introduction,' 'The Word Manager Approach,' 'Inflection,' 'Wordformation' [sic], and 'Linguistic Theories') and a lengthy appendix giving syntax d...

Corpora are frequently used to investigate authentic language use and a variety of largesample statistical procedures are currently employed and developed for this purpose. This book provides a largely comprehensive and succinct overview of the most commonly employed statistical procedures with their mathematical foundations and is thus useful for people interested in gaining a deeper understan...

Examples play a crucial role in instruction manuals, textbooks, and documentation. If they are carefully chosen they can show clearly how a new facility or language can be used, while also supporting conceptual understanding. To be effective, examples should be linked with any textual explanation of a topic, complementing that description. Language generation techniques have been used in severa...

Verbmobil is a project sponsored by the German government, whose aim is to develop a translation system for face-to-face speech dialogue. This book is the report on a preliminary study of the project conducted by CSLI, Stanford University. The contents of the book are as follows: Chapter 1 contains introductory material; Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 are devoted to describing the current state-of-the...

Referential Communication Tasks offers, in a small format (125 pages), a general survey of experimental settings and scientific background on communication studies centered on specific activities in which the speakers are observed for their ability to achieve tasks rather than solely for their linguistic productions. It thus offers a basic and introductory insight to research and experiments th...

ation of many strings. Rule-based systems can do better , but the rules are based on years of s tudy by phoneticians, and are not only complex, but are supplemented by large lists of lexical exceptions. Presumably a connectionist system that could be taught rules as well as learn from example would outperform both versions; and that is what a human seems to b e a system that can be taught rules...

And from this it follows that weak generative capacity, as usually conceived, cannot be the right notion of complexity to study in connection with human language (even if it were to be measured by a yardstick different from the Chomsky hierarchy). Important as the three papers I have mentioned are, my favorite is the previously unpublished---and, this time, brand new-pape r by Savitch on contex...