Words and Intelligence I Selected Papers by Yorick Wilks [Hardcover]

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 selected papers reflect Yoricks contribution to both practical and theoretical aspects of automatic language processing.

Text Searching with Templates.- Decidability and Natural Language.- The Stanford Machine Translation Project.- An Intelligent Analyzer and Understander of English.- A Preferential, Pattern-Seeking, Semantics for Natural Language Inference.- Good and Bad Arguments About Semantic Primitives.- Making Preferences More Active.- Providing Machine Tractable Dictionary Tools.- Belief Ascription, Metaphor, and Intensional Identification.- Stone Soup and the French Room.- Senses and Texts.

From the reviews:

This compilation of papers by Yorick Wilks must be recommended to every library specialised in machine translation, computational linguistics, or artificial intelligence. & In sum, all the eleven compiled papers exude Yorick Wilks splendid and talented contributions to the major issues of language technology and machine translation during the three vital decades extending from 1964 to 1997. (Joseba Abaitua, Machine Translation, Vol. 22, 2008)

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 Linguistl“Y