Defining Language. A local grammar of definition sentences.

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Title: Defining Language. A local grammar of definition sentences.
Description: Definition is a basic activity of language, of particular importance to linguists because of its use of language to describe itself. Beyond this inherent significance as a crucial element of language study, definitions also provide a rich potential source of the information needed for Natural Language Processing systems. This book describes an investigation of the subset of general language used in definition sentences and the development of a taxonomy of definition types, a grammar of definition sentences and parsing software which can extract their functional components. The work is based.
Authors: BARNBROOK, Geoff
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: English language--Lexicography, Lexicography--Data processing, English language--Lexicography--Data processing
Categories: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Spelling & Vocabulary, LANGUAGE STUDY / Multi-Language Dictionaries, REFERENCE / Dictionaries
Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
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