Hownet And The Computation Of Meaning: (With Cd-rom)
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| Title: | Hownet And The Computation Of Meaning: (With Cd-rom) |
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| Description: | It is widely acknowledged that natural language processing, as an indispensable means for information technology, requires the strong support of world knowledge as well as linguistic knowledge. This book is a theoretical exploration into the extra-linguistic knowledge needed for natural language processing and a panoramic description of HowNet as a case study. Readers will appreciate the uniqueness of the discussion on the definitions of the top-level classes HowNet specifies, such as things, parts, attributes, time, space, events and attribute-values, and the relations among them, and also the depth of the authors'philosophy behind HowNet.The book presents the attraction of HowNet's computability of meanings and describes how a software of the computation of meaning can collect so many relevant words and expressions and give a similiarity value between any two words or expressions. |
| Authors: | Zhendong Dong, Qiang Dong |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Machine translating, Chinese language--Data processing, English language--Data processing, Natural language processing (Computer science), Semantics--Data processing, Lexicology--Data processing, Phraseology--Data processing |
| Categories: | COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | It is widely acknowledged that natural language processing, as an indispensable means for information technology, requires the strong support of world knowledge as well as linguistic knowledge. This book is a theoretical exploration into the extra-linguistic knowledge needed for natural language processing and a panoramic description of HowNet as a case study. Readers will appreciate the uniqueness of the discussion on the definitions of the top-level classes HowNet specifies, such as things, parts, attributes, time, space, events and attribute-values, and the relations among them, and also the depth of the authors'philosophy behind HowNet.The book presents the attraction of HowNet's computability of meanings and describes how a software of the computation of meaning can collect so many relevant words and expressions and give a similiarity value between any two words or expressions. |
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| ISBN: | 9789812564917 9789812774675 |
