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  • Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons

    Edited by E. Viegas ...
    Series Book 10 - Text, Speech and Language Technology
    Most of the books about computational (lexical) semantic lexicons deal with the depth (or content) aspect of lexicons, ignoring the breadth (or coverage) aspect. This book presents a first attempt in the community to address both issues: content and coverage of computational semantic lexicons, in a thorough manner. Moreover, it addresses issues which have not yet been tackled in implemented ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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  • Collocation

    Applications and Implications

    by G. Barnbrook, O. Mason, R. Krishnamurthy ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents a comprehensive description of collocation, covering both the theoretical and practical background and the implications and applications of the concept as language model and analytical tool. It provides a definitive survey of currently available techniques and a detailed description of their implementation. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Discourse of Twitter and Social Media

    How We Use Language to Create Affiliation on the Web

    by Dr Michele Zappavigna ...
    Series series Continuum Discourse
    Social media such as microblogging services and social networking sites are changing the way people interact online and search for information and opinions. This book investigates linguistic patterns in electronic discourse,looking at online evaluative language, Internet slang, memes and ambient affiliation using a large Twitter corpus (over 100 million tweets) alongside specialized case studies. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Quantifiers and Cognition: Logical and Computational Perspectives

    by Jakub Szymanik ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume on the semantic complexity of natural language explores the question why some sentences are more difficult than others. While doing so, it lays the groundwork for extending semantic theory with computational and cognitive aspects by combining linguistics and logic with computations and cognition.Quantifier expressions occur whenever we describe the world and communicate about it. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Working with Portuguese Corpora

    Edited by Tony Berber Sardinha, Telma de Lurdes São Bento Ferreira ...
    Although Portuguese is one of the main world languages and researchers have been working on Portuguese electronic text collections for decades (e.g. Kelly, 1970; Biderman, 1978; Bacelar do Nascimento et al., 1984; see Berber Sardinha, 2005), this is the first volume in English that encapsulates the exciting and cutting-edge corpus linguistic work being done with Portuguese language corpora on ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Logic of Metaphor

    Analogous Parts of Possible Worlds

    by Eric Steinhart ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Metaphors and Logic Metaphors are among the most vigorous offspring of the creative mind; but their vitality springs from the fact that they are logical organisms in the ecology of l- guage. I aim to use logical techniques to analyze the meanings of metaphors. My goal here is to show how contemporary formal semantics can be extended to handle metaphorical utterances. What distinguishes this work ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Topics in Constraint-Based Grammar of Japanese

    Edited by K. Hasida, T. Gunji ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This collection of papers reports our attempt to sketch how Japanese grammar can be represented in a constraint-based formalism. Our first attempt of this nature appeared a decade ago as Japanese Phrase Structure Grammar (Gunji 1987) and in several papers following the publication of the book. This book has evolved from a technical memo that was a progress report on the Japanese phrase structure ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Multimodal Pragmatics and Translation

    A New Model for Source Text Analysis

    by Sara Dicerto ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book proposes a new model for the translation-oriented analysis of multimodal source texts. The author guides the reader through semiotics, multimodality, pragmatics and translation studies on a quest for the meaning-making mechanics of texts that combine images and words. She openly challenges the traditional view that sees translators focusing their attention mostly on the linguistic aspect ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Evolution of Semantic Systems

    Edited by Bernd-Olaf Küppers, Udo Hahn, Stefan Artmann ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Complex systems in nature and society make use of information for the development of their internal organization and the control of their functional mechanisms. Alongside technical aspects of storing, transmitting and processing information, the various semantic aspects of information, such as meaning, sense, reference and function, play a decisive part in the analysis of such systems.With the aim ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Evaluation and Stance in War News

    A Linguistic Analysis of American, British and Italian television news reporting of the 2003 Iraqi war

    Edited by Louann Haarman, Professor Linda Lombardo ...
    Series series Corpus and Discourse
    In a world in which advanced communication technologies have made the reporting of disasters and conflicts (also in the form of breaking news) a familiar and 'normalised' activity, the information we present here about television news reporting of the 2003 war in Iraq has implications that go beyond this particular conflict.Evaluation and Stance in War News functions as a tool kit for the critical ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Modern Perspectives in Type-Theoretical Semantics

    Edited by Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Zhaohui Luo ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is a collective volume that reports the state of the art in the applications of type theory to linguistic semantics. The volume fills a 20 year gap from the last published book on the issue and aspires to bring researchers closer to cutting edge alternatives in formal semantics research. It consists of unpublished work by some key researchers on various issues related to the type ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Verb Sense Discovery in Mandarin Chinese—A Corpus based Knowledge-Intensive Approach

    by Jia-Fei Hong ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book applies linguistic analysis to the poetry of Emeritus Professor Edwin Thumboo, a Singaporean poet and leading figure in Commonwealth literature. The work explores how the poet combines grammar and metaphor to create meaning, making the reader aware of the linguistic resources developed by Thumboo as the basis for his unique technique.The author approaches the poems from a functional ... Read more

    $89.99 USD