Words and Intelligence I Selected Papers by Yorick Wilks
Yorick Wilks is a central figure in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. His influence extends to many areas and includes contributions to Machines Translation, word sense disambiguation, dialogue modeling and Information
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Words and Intelligence I Selected Papers by Yorick Wilks
Words and Intelligence I
Text, Speech and Language Technology VOLUME 35
Series Editors Nancy Ide, Vassar College, New York Jean Véronis, Université de Provence and CNRS, France Editorial Board Harald Baayen, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands Kenneth W. Church, AT & T Bell Labs, New Jersey, USA Judith Klavans, Columbia University, New York, USA David T. Barnard, University of Regina, Canada Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Romania Joaquim Llisterri, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Stig Johansson, University of Oslo, Norway Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, France
Words and Intelligence I Selected Papers by Yorick Wilks Edited by
Khurshid Ahmad Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Christopher Brewster University of Sheffield, UK
Mark Stevenson University of Sheffield, UK
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Contents
Preface
vii
Origin of the Essays
xi
1. Text Searching with Templates Yorick Wilks
1
2. Decidability and Natural Language Yorick Wilks
9
3. The Stanford Machine Translation Project Yorick Wilks
29
4. An Intelligent Analyzer and Understander of English Yorick Wilks
61
5. A Preferential, Pattern-Seeking, Semantics for Natural Language Inference Yorick Wilks
83
6. Good and Bad Arguments About Semantic Primitives Yorick Wilks
103
7. Making Preferences More Active Yorick Wilks
141
8. Providing Machine Tractable Dictionary Tools Yorick Wilks, Dan Fass, Cheng-ming Guo, James E. McDonald, Tony Plate and Brian M. Slator
167
9. Belief Ascription, Metaphor, and Intensional Identification Afzal Ballim, Yorick Wilks and John Barnden
217
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vi
Contents
10. Stone Soup and the French Room Yorick Wilks
255
11. Senses and Texts Yorick Wilks
267
Preface
Professor Yorick Wilks has contributed to a wide range of academic fields including philosophy, linguistics and artificial intelligence. The main focus of his work has been the fields of computational linguistics and natural language processing where his work has advanced an unusually wide range of areas such as machine translation, word sense disambiguation, belief modelling, computational lexicons and dialogue modelling. One of the distinguishing features of his work
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