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Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2013; US$ 143.00This paper describes the thematic variation observed in two newspaper genres – news reports and commentaries – in English and Spanish and studies the influence of genre-specific and language-specific constraints on the observed variation. The study is based on the contrastive analysis of certain clausal and discourse-thematic features... more...
Knowledge Spaces
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 95.00Based on the formal concept of "knowledge structures" originally proposed by Jean-Claude Falmagne and Jean-Paul Doignon, this book contains descriptions of methodological developments and experimental investigations as well as applications for various knowledge domains. The authors address three main topics: * theoretical issues and extensions of... more...
Machine Ethics
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 84.00This volume of collected essays explores developing ethics for machines, in contrast to developing ethics for human beings who use machines. more...
Internationalization, Design and Global Development
Springer 2009; US$ 99.00This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Internationalization, Design and Global Development, IDGD 2009, held in San Diego, CA, USA, in July 2009 in the framework of the 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2009 with 10 other thematically similar conferences. The 57 revised... more...
Corpus-Informed Research and Learning in ESP
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2012; US$ 143.00These specially-commissioned studies cover corpus-informed approaches to researching, teaching and learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP). The corpora used range from very large published corpora to small tailor-made collections of written and spoken text, as well as parallel and contrastive corpora, in both the hard and softer sciences. Designed... more...
Research and Development in Expert Systems IX
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 131.00This volume contains the refereed and invited papers presented at Expert Systems 92. more...
New Developments in Parsing Technology
Springer 2004; US$ 239.00Parsing can be defined as the decomposition of complex structures into their constituent parts, and parsing technology as the methods, the tools and the software to parse automatically. Parsing is a central area of research in the automatic processing of human language. more...
Trends in Parsing Technology
Springer 2010; US$ 109.99Computer parsing technology, which breaks down complex linguistic structures into their constituent parts, is a key research area in the automatic processing of human language. This volume is a collection of contributions from leading researchers in the field of natural language processing technology, each of whom detail their recent work which includes... more...
Programming with the Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit
Microsoft Press 2012; US$ 28.00Create rich experiences for users of Windows 7 and Windows 8 Developer Preview with this pragmatic guide to the Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit (SDK). The author, a developer evangelist for Microsoft, walks you through Kinect sensor technology and the SDK?providing hands-on insights for how to add gesture and posture recognition to your... more...
Formal Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural Language Querying
Cambridge University Press 1990; US$ 52.00Connects the semantics of databases to that of natural language, and links them through a common view of the semantics of time. more...









