Notes on Computational Linguistics
by Edward Stabler
Publisher: UCLA 2003
Description:
What kind of computational device could use a system like a human language? This text explores the computational properties of devices that could compute morphological and syntactic analyses, and recognize semantic entailment relations among sentences.
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