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Using Computers in Linguisticsby John Lawler; Helen Aristar Dry
Routledge 1998; US$ 52.95Provides a non-technical introduction to recent developments in linguistic computing and offers specific guidance to the linguist or language professional who wishes to take advantage of them. more...
Discourse Function and Syntactic Form in Natural Languageby Cassandre Creswell
Routledge 2004; US$ 121.00This book makes extensive use of previously unexamined naturally occuring corpus data of non-canonical word order in English, both to illustrate the points of the theoretical model and to train the statistical model. more...
Microsoft Log Parser Toolkitby Gabriele Giuseppini; Mark Burnett
Syngress Publishing 2005; US$ 41.95HIGHLIGHT Written by Microsoft's Log Parser developer, this is the first book available on Microsoft's popular yet undocumented log parser tool. The book and accompanying Web site contain hundreds of customized, working scripts and templates that system administrators will find invaluable for analyzing the log files from Windows Server, Snort IDS, ISA Server, IIS Server, Exchange Server, and other products. System administrators running Windows, Unix, and Linux networks manage anywhere from 1 to thousands of operating systems (Windows, Unix, etc.), Applications (Exchange, Snort, IIS, etc.), and hardware devices (firewalls, routers, etc.) that generate incredibly long and detailed log files of all activity on the particular application or device.... more...
Language, Cohesion and Formby Margaret Masterman; Yorick Wilks; Branimir Boguraev; Steven Bird; Don HIndle; Martin Kay; David McDonald; Hans Uszkoreit
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 35.00This volume brings together for the first time the papers of Margaret Masterman, a pioneer in the field of computational linguistics. With commentaries by Yorick Wilks - also a leading expert in the field - it brings into focus her influential work in machine translation, the philosophy of science, and artificial intelligence. more...
Memory-Based Language Processingby Walter Daelemans; Antal van den Bosch; Branimir Boguraev; Steven Bird; Don HIndle; Martin Kay; David McDonald; Hans Uszkoreit; Yorick Wilks
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 38.00This book discusses the theory and practice of memory-based language processing - a machine learning and problem solving method for language technology - showing its comparative strengths over alternative methods of language modelling. The first comprehensive overview of the approach, this book will be invaluable for computational linguists, psycholinguists and language engineers. more...
A Glossary of Corpus Linguisticsby Paul Baker; Andrew Hardie; Tony McEnery
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 83.56Presents a comprehensive glossary of terms used in corpus linguistics. This alphabetic guide provides definitions and discussion of key terms used in corpus linguistics. Written by a team of experienced academics in the field, it provides coverage of both traditional and contemporary terminology. more...
Language and the Internetby David Crystal
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 30.00In recent years, the Internet has come to dominate our lives. Covering a range of genres, including e-mail, chat, and the Web, David Crystal reveals how the Internet is radically changing how we use language. Engaging and accessible, this book will continue to fascinate anyone who has used the Internet. more...
Words and Intelligenceby Khurshid Ahmad; Christopher Brewster; Mark Stevenson
Springer 2006; US$ 169.00Yorick Wilks is a central figure in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. This book presents the work of Yorick Wilks in the form of a selection of his papers. It accompanies a Festschrift which celebrates his contribution to the fields of Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence. more...
Words and Intelligence IIby Khurshid Ahmad; Christopher Brewster; Mark Stevenson
Springer 2007; US$ 139.00Yorick Wilks is a central figure in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. His influence has extends to many areas of these fields and includes contributions to Machine Translation, word sense disambiguation, dialogue modeling and Information Extraction. This book celebrates the work of Yorick Wilks from the perspective of his peers. It consists of original chapters each of which analyses an aspect of his work and links it to current thinking in that area. His work has spanned over four decades but is shown to be pertinent to recent developments in language processing such as the Semantic Web. This volume forms a two-part set together with Words and Intelligence I, Selected Works by Yorick Wilks, by the same... more...
Inductive Dependency Parsingby Joakim Nivre
Springer 2006; US$ 149.00Provides a description of the framework of inductive dependency parsing, a methodology for robust and efficient syntactic analysis of unrestricted natural language text. This book includes a theoretical analysis of all central models and algorithms, as well as an evaluation of memory-based dependency parsing, using data from Swedish and English. more...









