About the Book
In the last decade, computational linguistics has produced a revival of the interest in the mathematical study of the various levels of human language. This volume contains a selection of recent research papers approaching mathematical and computational topics in natural languages, with a special attention being paid to syntax and semantics. According with their main focus, the papers are distributed into four parts: Syntax, Semantics, Natural language processing and Varia, which cover a vast range of problems. The book may be of interest to all those who intend to know which kind of mathematics is used when giving account of natural language, as well as to people working on computational issues involving human-machine interaction.
Table of Contents:
1. Foreword, pv; 2. Table of Contents, pvii; 3. List of Contributors, pxi; 4. Part I: Syntax; 5. The Degree of Parallelism in Contextual Grammars with Minimal Competence Strategy (by Dassow, Juergen), p3; 6. The Syntactis Complexity of Internal Contextual Grammars and Languages (by Georgescu, Gianina), p17; 7. On Ambiguity in Internal Contextual Languages (by Ilie, Lucian), p29; 8. Linguistic and Semiotic Preliminaries to Contextual Grammars (by Marcus, Solomon), p47; 9. Attempting to Define the Ambiguity of Internal contextual Languages (by Martin-Vide, Carlos), p59; 10. Variants of Parallel Communicating Grammar Systems (by Mihalache, Valeria), p83; 11. On Contextual Automata (by Miquel-Verges, Joan), p95; 12. Part II: Semantics; 13. Nonassociative and Commutative Categorial Grammars and their Languages (by Kandulski, Maciej), p113; 14. Words as Modules: A Lexicalised Grammar in the Framework of Linear Logic Proof Nets (by Lecomte, Alain), p129; 15. A Metagrammatical Logical Formalism (by Manca, Vincenzo), p145; 16. Word Meaning, Logic and the Informative Entailment Relation (by Nepomuceno Fernandez, Angel), p159; 17. Accessible Similar Worlds and French Coherent Infinitival Constructions (by Reed, Lisa A.), p171; 18. Part III: Natural Language Processing; 19. Machine Translation of Motion Verbs from English into Spanish (by Amores, J. Gabriel), p191; 20. On the Complexity of Pronominal Anaphora Resolution in Machine Translation (by Mitkov, Ruslan), p207; 21. An Interval Algebra for Temporal Relations Conveyed by a Text (by Pimenta Rodrigues, Irene), p223; 22. Approximate Reasoning about Natural Language: A Certain Distributional-Mereological Model (by Polkowski, Lech T.), p239; 23. Bidirectional and Event-Driven Parsing with Multi Virtual Trees (by Quesada, Jose Francisco), p253; 24. An LALR Extension for DCG's in Dynamic Programming (by Vilares Ferro, Manuel), p267; 25. Part IV: Varia; 26. Unrestricted Text into Prosodic Units. A Formal Description (by Casacuberta Sevilla, David), p281; 27. Concepts of Mathematical Linguistics: Means and Functional Domains (by Frajzyngier, Zygmunt), p295; 28. A Model of Personal Pronouns (by Kudlek, Manfred), p311; 29. A Mathematical Model for the Post-Creole Continuum in Hawaii (by Matsunami, Shinya), p327; 30. Intaxis: a Syntactical Model of Intonation (by Sanchez Gonzalez, Francisco Javier), p341; 31. An Information-Based Treatment of Punctuation in Discourse Representation Theory (by Say, Bilge), p359; 32. Author Index, p375; 33. Subject Index, p381
