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Language, cohesion and form : Margaret Masterman /

"Margaret Masterman was a pioneer in the field of computational linguistics. This volume brings together Masterman's groundbreaking papers for the first time. Through his insightful commentaries, Yorick Wilks argues that Masterman came close to developing a computational theory of language...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Masterman, Margaret
Other Authors: Wilks, Yorick, 1939-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Series:Studies in natural language processing.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Words
  • 2. Fans and heads
  • 3. Classification, concept-formation and language
  • 4. The potentialities of a mechanical thesaurus
  • 5. What is a thesaurus?
  • 6. 'Agricola in curvo terram dimovit arator'
  • 7. Mechanical pidgin translation
  • 8. Translation
  • 9. Commentary on the Guberina hypothesis
  • 10. Semantic algorithms
  • 11. Braithwaite and Kuhn : analogy-clusters within and without hypothetico-deductive systems in science
  • Bibliography of the scientific works of Margaret Masterman.