Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing II : 100 Essentials from Semantics and Pragmatics (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies)

Bender, Emily M./ Lascarides, Alex

Springer International Publishing AG（2019/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 250 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783031010446

Full Description

Meaning is a fundamental concept in Natural Language Processing (NLP), in the tasks of both Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Natural Language Generation (NLG). This is because the aims of these fields are to build systems that understand what people mean when they speak or write, and that can produce linguistic strings that successfully express to people the intended content. In order for NLP to scale beyond partial, task-specific solutions, researchers in these fields must be informed by what is known about how humans use language to express and understand communicative intents. The purpose of this book is to present a selection of useful information about semantics and pragmatics, as understood in linguistics, in a way that's accessible to and useful for NLP practitioners with minimal (or even no) prior training in linguistics.

Contents

Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- What is Meaning?.- Lexical Semantics: Overview.- Lexical Semantics: Senses.- Semantic Roles.- Collocations and Other Multiword Expressions.- Compositional Semantics.- Compositional Semantics beyond Predicate-Argument Structure.- Beyond Sentences.- Reference Resolution.- Presupposition.- Information Status and Information Structure.- Implicature and Dialogue.- Resources.- Bibliography.- Authors' Biographies.- General Index.- Index of Languages.