Margaret Masterman was a pioneer in the field of computational
linguistics. Working in the earliest days of language processing by
computer, she believed that meaning, not grammar, was the key to
understanding languages, and that machines could determine the
meaning of sentences. She was able, even on simple machines, to
undertake sophisticated experiments in machine translation, and
carried out important work on the use of semantic codings and
thesauri to determine the meaning structure of texts. This volume
brings together Masterman's groundbreaking papers for the first
time. Through his insightful commentaries, Yorick Wilks argues that
Masterman came close to developing a computational theory of
language meaning based on the ideas of Wittgenstein, and shows the
importance of her work in the philosophy of science and the nature
of iconic languages. Of key interest in computational linguistics
and artificial intelligence, it will remind scholars of Masterman's
significant contribution to the field.
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