Words and intelligence I: selected papers by Yorick Wilks

Khurshid Ahmad (Editor), Christopher Brewster (Editor), Mark Stevenson (Editor)

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Abstract

Yorick Wilks is a central figure in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. His influence extends to many areas and includes contributions to Machines Translation, word sense disambiguation, dialogue modeling and Information Extraction. This book celebrates the work of Yorick Wilks in the form of a selection of his papers which are intended to reflect the range and depth of his work. The volume accompanies a Festschrift which celebrates his contribution to the fields of Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence. The papers include early work carried out at Cambridge University, descriptions of groundbreaking work on Machine Translation and Preference Semantics as well as more recent works on belief modeling and computational semantics. The selected papers reflect Yorick’s contribution to both practical and theoretical aspects of automatic language processing.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherSpringer
Number of pages292
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4020-5285-9
ISBN (Print)978-1-4020-5284-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Mar 2007

Publication series

NameText, Speech and Language Technology
PublisherSpringer
Volume36
ISSN (Print)1386-291X

Keywords

  • artificial
  • computational
  • language
  • machine
  • natural
  • processing
  • semantics
  • translation

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  • Words and intelligence II: essays in honor of Yorick Wilks

    Ahmad, K. (Editor), Brewster, C. (Editor) & Stevenson, M. (Editor), 7 May 2007, Dordrecht (NL): Springer. 279 p. (Text, speech and language technology; vol. 36)

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