ABCD springer.com Springer Customized Book List Linguistics FRANKFURT BOOKFAIR 2007 springer.com/booksellers Linguistics 1 K. Ahmad, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; C. Brewster, University K. Ahmad, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; C. Brewster, University E. Alcón Soler, Universitat Jaume I, Spain; M.P. Safont Jordà, Uni- of Sheffield, UK; M. Stevenson, University of Sheffield, UK (Eds.) of Sheffield, UK; M. Stevenson, University of Sheffield, UK (Eds.) versitat Jaume I, Spain (Eds.) Words and Intelligence I Words and Intelligence II Intercultural Language Use and Selected Papers by Yorick Wilks Essays in Honor of Yorick Wilks Language Learning Yorick Wilks is a central figure in the fields of Natu- Yorick Wilks is a central figure in the fields of Natu- This volume attempts to address an issue that de- ral Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. ral Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. serves further attention on the part of language ac- His influence extends to many areas and includes His influence has extends to many areas of these quisition researchers: that of intercultural learners contributions to Machines Translation, word sense fields and includes contributions to Machine Trans- in instructed language contexts. Given the fact that disambiguation, dialogue modeling and Information lation, word sense disambiguation, dialogue mod- most speech communities where such learning takes Extraction. This book celebrates the work of Yorick eling and Information Extraction. This book cele- place are at least bilingual, and the idea that English Wilks in the form of a selection of his papers which brates the work of Yorick Wilks from the perspective is studied for the purposes of communication among are intended to reflect the range and depth of his of his peers. It consists of original chapters each of people from different cultures, the book focuses on work. The volume accompanies a Festschrift which which analyses an aspect of his work and links it to English learners as intercultural speakers. In so do- celebrates his contribution to the fields of Compu- current thinking in that area. His work has spanned ing, the volume brings together three main research tational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence. The over four decades but is shown to be pertinent to re- areas: those of the study of English as a lingua franca, papers include early work carried out at Cambridge cent developments in language processing such as the development of communicative competence and University, descriptions of groundbreaking work on the Semantic Web. This volume forms a two-part the use and acquisition of a language beyond a sec- Machine Translation and Preference Semantics as set together with Words and Intelligence I, Selected ond one in instructed contexts. This book is for re- well as more recent works on belief modeling and Works by Yorick Wilks, by the same editors. searchers with an interest in the field of second/for- computational semantics. The selected papers reflect eign language acquisition and use, scholars examin- Yorick’s contribution to both practical and theoreti- Features ing learner variables in instructional contexts, and cal aspects of automatic language processing. Celebrates the work of Yorick Wilks from the per- scholars adopting a sociolinguistic perspective in the spective of his peers Consists of original contribu- study of oral discourse and languages in contact. Features tions from eminent scientists The papers include descriptions of groundbreak- Features ing work on Machine Translation and Prefer- Contents Includes well known names in applied linguistics ence Semantics The selected papers reflect Yorick With contributions by: John Barnden, Nicoletta Cal- Contains original empirical studies dealing with ELF Wilks'contribution to both practical and theoretical zolari, Gregory Grefenstette, Mark Maybury, Mako- and bilingual learners Up-to-date discussion of inter- aspects of automatic language processing to Nagao, Sergei Nirenburg, Harold Somers, Karen cultural theory and research Links intercultural re- Sparck-Jones, John Tait, Patrick Hanks, Nancy Ide, search to language learning and teaching Contents Nigel Shadbolt, and Rob Gaizauskas. Preface.- Origin of the essays.- Paper 1: Text Search- Fields of interest ing with Templates.- Paper 2: Decidability and Nat- Fields of interest Applied Linguistics; Language Education; Learning ural Language.- Paper 3: The Stanford Machine Computational Linguistics; Language Translation & Instruction; Psycholinguistics Translation and Understanding Project.- Paper 4: An and Linguistics Intelligent Analyser and Understander of English.- Target groups Paper 5: A Preferential, Pattern Seeking, Semantics Target groups Researchers with an interest in second/foreign lan- for Natural Language Inference.- Paper 6: Good and Academics in computer science, artificial intelli- guage acquisition and use, scholars examining learn- Bad Arguments about Semantic Primitives.- Paper 7: gence, natural language processing er variables in instructional contexts, scholars adopt- Making Preferences More Active.- Paper 8: Provid- ing a sociolinguistic perspective in the study of oral Type of publication ing Machine Tractable Dictionary Tools.- Paper 9: discourse and languages in contact Contributed volume Belief Ascription, Metaphor and Intensional Identi- Type of publication ty.- Paper 10: Stone soup and the [..] Due May 2007 Contributed volume Fields of interest Computational Linguistics; Artificial Intelligence 2007. XIV, 279 p. (Text, Speech and Language Technology, Vol. Due April 2007 (incl. Robotics); Language Translation and Linguis- 36) Hardcover tics; Semantics; Philosophy of Language 2007. VII, 287 p. Hardcover 99,95 € Target groups ISBN 978-1-4020-5832-5 104,95 € Scientists, researchers and graduate students ISBN 978-1-4020-5635-2 Type of publication Collected works Due March 2007 2007. XII, 280 p. (Text, Speech and Language Technology, Vol. 35) Hardcover 99,95 € ISBN 978-1-4020-5284-2 2 Linguistics springer.com/booksellers H. Bunt, Tilburg University, The Netherlands; R. Muskens, Tilburg K.F. Cantone, University of Bremen, Germany I. Comorovski, Université Nancy 2/CNRS, France; K. von University, The Netherlands (Eds.) Heusinger, Universität Stuttgart, Germany (Eds.) Code-switching in Bilingual Computing Meaning Children Existence: Semantics and Syntax Volume 3 This collection is an important contribution to the The goal of this volume is to prove that mixed ut- semantic and syntactic analysis of the expression of This book provides an in-depth view of the current terances in young bilinguals can be analyzed in the existence. The volume focuses on the three main lin- issues, problems and approaches in the computation same way as adult code-switching. Analyzing a rich guistic constructions expressing existence: copular of meaning as expressed in language. Aimed at lin- corpus of spontaneous child data, the author pro- clauses, existential sentences, and (in)definiteness. guists, computer scientists, and logicians with an in- vides detailed empirical evidence for latest minimal- The papers analyze the interaction between the ba- terest in the computation of meaning, this book fo- ist assumptions on the architecture of mind and con- sic notion of existence and pervasive phenomena of cuses on two main topics in recent research in com- firms that code-switching is only constrained by the natural language, such as quantification and presup- putational semantics. The first topic is the definition two grammars of the languages involved. The data position. The contributions represent state of the art and use of underspecified semantic representations, show that the quantity of mixing in children depends research on theoretical and comparative issues relat- i.e. formal structures that represent part of the mean- on an individual choice rather than on language de- ed to the expression of existence, and make extensive ing of a linguistic object while leaving other parts un- velopment, language dominance, or other factors. reference to the semantic and syntactic facts of En- specified. The second topic discussed is semantic an- Besides critically reviewing the literature on lan- glish and of various other languages. The richness of notation. Annotated corpora have become an indis- guage mixing in children and adults, this work offers new data and the juxtaposition of different theoreti- pensable resource both for linguists and for devel- a thorough grammatical analysis of the code-switch- cal stances bring a number of new questions into fo- opers of language and speech technology, especial- ing data of five Italian/German children. The book cus. ly when used in combination with machine learn- provides new insights not only in the field of code- ing methods. The annotation in corpora has only switching and of language mixing in young bilin- Features marginally addressed semantic information, how- guals, but also in issues concerning general ques- Considers the three main aspects of the linguistic ex- ever, since semantic annotation methodologies are tions on linguistic theory which are difficult to be an- pression of existence: copular clauses, existential sen- still in their infancy. This book discusses the devel- swered with monolingual data. tences, and (in)definiteness Offers a crosslinguistic opment and application of such methodologies. perspective on the linguistic expression of existence Features Presents a richness of new data Uses state-of-the- Features New approach: