1st Edition

Natural Language Computing An English Generative Grammar in Prolog

By Ray C. Dougherty Copyright 1994

    This book's main goal is to show readers how to use the linguistic theory of Noam Chomsky, called Universal Grammar, to represent English, French, and German on a computer using the Prolog computer language. In so doing, it presents a follow-the-dots approach to natural language processing, linguistic theory, artificial intelligence, and expert systems. The basic idea is to introduce meaningful answers to significant problems involved in representing human language data on a computer.

    Contents: Preface. Introduction: What is Computational Linguistics? How to Use This Book: A Pictorial Essay. Natural Intelligence, Linguistics, and Prolog. How to Read and Write in Prolog. How to Load, Run, and Edit a Prolog Program. Tables of Data as Prolog Facts and Relations. How Prolog Backtracks in Searches. The Canonical Form of a Prolog Relation. Computational Tools for Language Processing. Computational Tools for Sentence Processing. Appendices: The Disk Included With This Book. How to Access the New York University BBS. Flavor Files. Looking into Prolog: listing, trace, and breakpoint.

    Biography

    Ray C. Dougherty