“steven bird”

As a pioneer in computational linguistics, working in the earliest days of language processing by computer, Margaret Masterman believed that meaning, not grammar, was the key to understanding languages, and that machines could determine the meaning of sentences. This volume brings together Masterman... More

A worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Camus, Michel Houellebecq now delivers his magnum opus- a tale of our present circumstances told from the future, when humanity as we know it has vanished. Surprisingly poignant, philosophically compelling, and occasionally laugh-ou... More

This volume and the accompanying CD-ROM cover the whole breadth of contemporary finite state language modeling, from the mathematical foundations to developing and debugging specific grammars. In addition to applications developed in the broad frameworks of the Xerox regular expression calculus or t... More

The 2nd Edition of THE MEDICAL INTERVIEW presents basic interviewing skills in a systematic approach designed to assist students in mastering communicating with patients. A new unit on managing common challenging communicating situations* including language and cultural barriers, pediatric and elder... More

This innovative book develops a formal computational theory of writing systems and relates it to psycholinguistic results. Drawing on case studies of writing systems around the world, it offers specific proposals about the linguistic objects that are represented by orthographic elements and the form... More

Semantic interpretation and the resolution of ambiguity presents an important advance in computer understanding of natural language.In this particularly well written volume Graeme Hirst presents a theoretically motivated foundation for semantic interpretation (conceptual analysis) by computer, and s... More

Iraq. Afghanistan. Which country will be next? There is growing global unease at America's role on the world stage and its military ambitions. In this passionate and compelling critique, billionaire philanthropist George Soros uses his razor-sharp insight into political trends to come up with a seve... More