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Author Wilks, Yorick, 1939-

Title Electric words : dictionaries, computers, and meanings / Yorick A. Wilks, Brian M. Slator, and Louise M. Guthrie.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1996]
©1996

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 289 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series ACL-MIT Press series in natural-language processing
ACL-MIT Press series in natural-language processing.
Bradford book.
Note "A Bradford book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-279) and index.
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. A short history of meaning -- 3. Symbolic accounts of definitional meaning -- 4. Primitives in meaning definition -- 5. Wordbooks as human artifacts : dictionaries and thesauri -- 6. Early computational approaches : tasks and tools -- 7. Text analysis and its relationship to dictionaries : dictionaries as texts -- 8. Construction of modern lexicons -- 9. Automatic techniques for analyzing machine-readable dictionaries -- 10. Genus hierarchies and networks -- 11. Numerical methods for language processing -- 12. Automatic processing of bilingual dictionaries -- 13. Consumer projects using machine-readable dictionaries -- 14. Present.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Natural language processing (Computer science)
Natural language processing (Computer science)
Computational linguistics.
Computational linguistics.
Indexed Term Computers Use of Natural language
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Slator, Brian M.
Guthrie, Louise M.
Other Form: Print version: Wilks, Yorick, 1939- Electric words. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1996 0262231824 (DLC) 94049362 (OCoLC)31867499
ISBN 0585027188 (electronic book)
9780585027180 (electronic book)
9780262286244 (electronic book)
0262286246 (electronic book)
0262231824 (hardcover)
9780262231824 (hardcover)