Computational Linguistics

Recent developments in artificial intelligence, especially neural network and deep learning technology, have led to rapidly improving performance i...

Language, apart from its cultural and social dimension, has a scientific side that is connected not only to the study of 'grammar' in a more or les...

What is a language? What do scientific grammars tell us about the structure of individual languages and human language in general? What kind of sci...

How do infants learn a language? Why and how do languages evolve? How do we understand a sentence? This book explores these questions using recent ...

Construction Grammar is enthusiastically embraced by a growing group of linguists who find it a natural way to formulate their analyses. But so far...

Approximately a quarter of a century ago, the Multi-Dimensional (MD) approachone of the most powerful (and controversial) methods in Corpus Linguis...

This book is the first dedicated to linguistic parsing - the processing of natural language according to the rules of a formal grammar - in the Min...

This book is an advanced introduction to semantics that presents this crucial component of human language through the lens of the 'Meaning-Text' th...

This book is an advanced introduction to semantics that presents this crucial component of human language through the lens of the 'Meaning-Text' th...

We look at questions debated by pre-Socratic philosophers, emphasise their linguistic motivation and point out attempted answers by modern physics....