Natural Language Processing for Prolog Programmers

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Features

• 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.

Description

Coverage of natural language processing is broader than in competing books as it includes simple-but-practical database query systems, syntax, formal semantics and morphology. Numerous working computer programs that implement subsystems of a natural language processor are also included.

Sample Content

Table of Contents

 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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