Book
Grammars for Language and Genes Theoretical and Empirical Investigation
| Identifier | --davidchian-1721 |
|---|---|
| Penulis / Pengarang | David Chiang, David Chiang |
| Kata Kunci | Natural Language Processing |
| Tanggal Publikasi | 31 Mar 2012 |
| Bahasa | Bahasa Inggris |
| Abstrak / Deskripsi | t is indeed a great pleasure to write a few comments on this fascinating and inspiring book: Grammars for Language and Genes: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations, by David Chiang. First, I would like to acknowledge my good fortune in being able to work with David during his stay at the University of Pennsylvania. Each one of our meetings was a joyful event, informing and learning from each other, to our mutual benefit. Chiang’s work began with the study of the strong generative capacity of grammars, i.e., their capacity to represent structural descriptions. It is this aspect that is truly important for the study of formal grammars from the perspective of linguistics as well as computational linguistics. However, surprisingly, there is not much work done on issues concerning strong generative capacity (SGC). This is because it is not easy to formulate concepts of SGC that are formal enough and also linguistically meaningful. Building on notions of local interpretation functions, Chiang has given insightful accounts of how SGC should be characterized. He has then applied these ideas to a detailed study of characterizing SGC for a variety of formalisms including tree-adjoining grammars, their variants, and also several other formalisms. Further, building on some notions of extracting more SGC without increasing the weak generative capacity, Chiang has obtained some essential results connecting representations and interpretations. I am confident that much of this work will, in time, become the foundation on which to build further work on the formal characterizations of structural descriptions and interpretations and their eventual use in natural language processing (NLP). |
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| 1 | 2012 Grammars_for_Lang.pdf | application/pdf | 1,4 MB | ⬇️ Buka / Download |
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