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Defining language : a local grammar of definition sentences /

Definition is a basic activity of language, of particular importance to linguists because of its use of language to describe itself. Beyond this inherent significance as a crucial element of language study, definitions also provide a rich potential source of the information needed for Natural Langua...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barnbrook, Geoff
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., 2002.
Colección:Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 11.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Definition is a basic activity of language, of particular importance to linguists because of its use of language to describe itself. Beyond this inherent significance as a crucial element of language study, definitions also provide a rich potential source of the information needed for Natural Language Processing systems. This book describes an investigation of the subset of general language used in definition sentences and the development of a taxonomy of definition types, a grammar of definition sentences and parsing software which can extract their functional components. The work is based.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xv, 280 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-272) and indexes.
ISBN:9789027296177
9027296170
9789027222817
9027222819
9781588112989
1588112985
ISSN:1388-0373 ;