Subject: new books : computational linguistics

computational linguistics * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * nerbonne , john ( groningen ) ; linguistic databases ; isbn : 1-57586 - 092 - 9 ( paper ) , 1-57586 - 093 - 7 ( cloth ) ; 244 pp . csli publications 1998 : http : / / csli-www . stanford . edu / publications / email : pubs @ roslin . stanford . edu . linguistic databases explains the whys and hows of the increasng use of databases in linguistics . the enormous potential in linguistic data - - billions of utterances and messages daily - - has been difficult to exploit . data must be archived and organized . many linguists have had to concentrate on introspective data with its inevitable blinders toward frequency , variation , and naturalness . applications of linguistics have been handicapped . databases not only store large amounts of data , but also impose an organization in data , which facilitates access for researchers and applications developers . linguistic databases reports on database activities in phonetics , phonology , lexicography and syntax , comparative grammar , second-language acquisition , linguistic fieldwork and language pathology . this volume presents the specialized problems of multimedia ( especially audio ) and multilingual texts , including those in exotic writing systems . implemented solutions are discussed . the opportunities to use existing , minimally structured text repositories are presented . * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * aliseda , atocha ( unam ) , van glabbeek , rob ( stanford university ) , and westerstaahl , dag ( stockholm university ) ; computing natural language ; isbn : 1-57586 - 100 - 3 ( paper ) , 1-57586 - 101 - 1 ( cloth ) ; 158 pp . csli publications 1998 : http : / / csli-www . stanford . edu / publications / email : pubs @ roslin . stanford . edu . computing natural language pursues the recent increased interest in the interface of logic , language and computation , with applications to artificial intelligence and machine learning . it contains a variety of contributions to the logical and computational analysis of natural language . a wide range of logical and computational tools are employed and applied to such varied areas as context-dependency , linguistic discourse , and formal grammar ; this volume is a collection of papers illustrating state-of - the-art interdisciplinary research collecting logic , language , computation and ai . the papers in this volume deal with context-dependency from philosophical , computational , and logical points of view . a logical framework for combining dynamic discourse semantics and preferential reasoning in ai is also presented . other subjects include negative polarity items in connection with affective predicates ; head - driven phrase structure grammar from a perspective of type theory and category theory ; and an axiomatic theory of machine learning of natural language , with applications to physics word problems . * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * csli publications ventura hall stanford university stanford , ca 94305-4115 telephone ( 650 ) 723-1839 fax ( 650 ) 725-2166 http : / / csli-www . stanford . edu / publications
