Issues in Mathematical Linguistics : Workshop on Mathematical Linguistics, State College, PA, April 1998.

This brief collection of refereed papers approaches several technical as well as methodological aspects of the mathematical formalization of natural language, particularly in syntax and in semantics. Such kind of investigation is a prerequisite for the computational processing of language and is nar...

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Main Author: Martín-Vide, Carlos
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1999
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Table of Contents:
  • ISSUES IN MATHEMATICAL LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Foreword; Table of contents; List of Contributors; Commands as Binary Relations; Generalized Minimalist Grammars; An Infinite Hierarchy of Mildly Context-Sensitive Families of Languages; Some Uses and Abuses of Mathematics in Linguistics; Logical Splicing in Natural Languages; X-Families: An Approach to the Study of Families of Syntactically Similar Languages; Overparsing; Computational Complexity in Language Models; Grammar Efficiency and the Historical Development of Word Order in French; Author Index.