Gal A., Lapalme G., Saint-Dizier P., Somers H. Prolog for Natural Language Processing

Издательство John Wiley, 1991. — 322 p.This book is an introduction to the automatic analysis and generation of sentences or texts in natural language. We do not claim to be able to present in an exhaustive way all the problems involved, but it offers a panorama, several examples of very real problems and research areas. The book is aimed at students, so that we include brief résumés of the state-of-the-art of each subject area we introduce, accompanied by bibliographic references enabling the reader to investigate the topic further. Equally important is the selection of carefully chosen examples of working programs, generally of a limited nature, but inviting further elaboration either as exercises or as fully-fledged projects or even dissertation topics. In the early chapters are simple exercises suitable for class-work or revision purposes, reinforcing the understanding of the new concepts introduced. Solutions to most of these exercises are also provided. The book also includes extensive appendices giving the full listings of all the programs discussed in the book. These appendices are available on a 5¼" IBM-compatible diskette on application to the publisher.
No prior knowledge or experience of computer programming on the part of the reader is required, although we do assume that the student will already be familiar with the host computer's operating system, and some basic ideas such as the nature of programs, programming languages, interactive programming style, the use of program and data files, and so on. However, students coming to Prolog as a second or third programming language will find plenty of new ideas and material even in the early chapters. Some elementary knowledge of logic and first-order predicate calculus is helpful, but by no means essential. The book assumes little or no background knowledge of linguistics, and a chapter explaining some basic aspects of this field is included. Nevertheless, the book will be attractive to students of linguistics who have an interest in the growing field of Computational Linguistics, and several complex linguistic problems are tackled. Examples are mostly based on English, and where other languages have been used, an explanation of the pertinent linguistic facts is provided. An important feature of the book is the range of difficulty of problems presented. While the early chapters are wholly introductory, with full explanations of all the basic concepts, later chapters tackle increasingly difficult and complex areas, each one suitable for development as a graduate or even doctoral research topic.Introduction to Natural Language Processing
Introduction to Prolog
The Linguistic Background
Using Logic Grammars
Semantic Representation
Automatic Text Generation
Cooperative Responses
General Conclusion and Perspectives
Answers to Selected Exercises