Words and Intelligence
Edited by Khurshid Ahmad, Christopher Brewster, Mark
Stevenson
[For copyright reasons, the contents of this volume are not available online; contact the publisher]
Vol. I: Selected papers by Yorick
Wilks
[ISBN: 978-1-4020-5284-2]
Contents
Preface ... pp. vii-x
Origin of the essays ... p. xi
Biographies of the editors ... pp. xiii-xiv
1. Text searching with templates ... pp.1-7
2. Decidability and natural language ... pp.9-27
3. The Stanford machine translation project ... pp.29-59
4. An intelligent analyzer and understander of English ... pp.61-82
5. A preferential, pattern-seeking, semantics for natural language inference ... pp.83-102
6. Good and bad arguments about semantic primitives ... pp. 103-139
7. Making preferences more active ... pp.141-166
8. Providing machine tractable tools [with Dan Fass, Cheng-ming Gao, James E.McDonald, Tony Plate and Brian M.Slater] ... pp.167-216
9. Belief ascription, metaphor, and intensional identification [with Afzal Ballim and John Barnden] ... pp.217-253
10. Stone soup and the French room ... pp. 255-265
11. Senses and texts ... pp. 267-279
Vol. II: Essays in honor of Yorick Wilks
[ISBN: 978-1-4020-5832-5
Contents
Biographies of the editors ... pp.vii-viii
List of contributors ... pp.ix-x
Introduction ... pp. xi-xiv
1. Yorick Alexander Wilks: a meaningful journey. Mark Maybury ... pp. 1-37
2. Metaphor, semantic preferences and context sensitivity. John A.Barnden ... pp.39-62
3. Towards a new generation of language resources in the Semantic Web vision. Nicoletta Calzolari ... pp.63-83
4. Information access and natural language processing: a stimulating dialogue. Robert Gaizauskas, Horacio Saggion and Emma Barker ... pp.85-105
5. Three steps in Wilks work: from theory to resources to practice. Gregory Grefenstette ... pp. 107-118
6. Preference syntagmatics. Patrick Hanks ... pp.119-135
7. Historical ontologies. Nancy Ide and David Woolner ... pp.137-152
8. An amorphous object must be cut by a blunt tool. Makoto Nagao ... pp. 153-158
9. Homer, the author of The Iliad and the computational linguistic turn. Sergei Nirenburg ... pp.159-193
10. Philosophical engineering. Nigel Shadboldt ... pp.195-207
11. Machine translation and the World Wide Web. Harold Somers ... pp.209-233
12. Semantic primitives: the tip of the iceberg. Karen Spärck Jones ... pp.235-253
13. Molecules, meaning and post-modernist semantics. John Tait and Michael Oakes ... pp.255-279