Bøger af Andras Kornai

Mathematical Linguistics introduces the mathematical foundations of linguistics to computer scientists, engineers, and mathematicians interested in natural language processing. The book presents linguistics as a cumulative body of knowledge from the ground up: no prior knowledge of linguistics is assumed.

This work, first published in 1995, is primarily addressed to phonologists interested in speech and to speech engineers interested in phonology. Autosegmental theory is at the core of contemporary phonology and Markov models are the main tool of speech recognition.

The author describes the conceptual and formal tools required for building semantic systems capable of understanding text, both for specific tasks such as information extraction and question answering and for broad undertakings such as the Semantic Web.