The Language of Time: A Reader (Paperback)

This reader collects and introduces important work in linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics on the use of linguistic devices in natural languages to situate events in time: whether they are past, present, or future; whether they are real or hypothetical; when an event might have occurred, and how long it could have lasted. In focussing on the treatment and retrieval of time-based information it seeks to lay the foundation for temporally-aware natural language computer processing systems, for example those that process documents on the worldwide web to answer questions or produce summaries. The development of such systems requires the application of technical knowledge from many different disciplines. The book is the first to bring these disciplines together, by means of classic and contemporary papers in four areas: tense, aspect, and event structure; temporal reasoning; the temporal structure of natural language discourse; and temporal annotation. Clear, self-contained editorial introductions to each area provide the necessary technical background for the non-specialist, explaining the underlying connections across disciplines. A wide range of students and professionals in academia and industry will value this book as an introduction and guide to a new and vital technology. The former include researchers, students, and teachers of natural language processing, linguistics, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, computer science, information retrieval (including the growing speciality of question-answering), library sciences, human-computer interaction, and cognitive science. Those in industry include corporate managers and researchers, software product developers, and engineers in information-intensive companies, such as on-line database and web-service providers.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2005
First published:	August 2005
Editors:	Inderjeet Mani • James Pustejovsky • Robert Gaizauskas
Dimensions:	245 x 171 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	604
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-926854-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Computational linguistics Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences > General Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Human-computer interaction Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-926854-1
Barcode:	9780199268542

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