Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing II: 100 Essentials from Semantics and Pragmatics

by Alex Lascarides and Emily M. Bender

Meaning is a fundamental concept in Natural Language Processing (NLP), in the tasks of both Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Natural Language Generation (NLG).

This is because the aims of these fields are to build systems that understand what people mean when they speak or write, and that can produce linguistic strings that successfully express to people the intended content. In order for NLP to scale beyond partial, task-specific...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681730731
• ISBN13: 9781681730738
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Morgan & Claypool
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 9.3"