guistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing: 100 Essentials from Semantics and Pragmatics
Emily M. Bender, University of Washington
Alex Lascarides, University of Edinburgh
The purpose of this book is to present a selection of useful information about semantics and pragmatics, as understood in linguistics, in a way that’s accessible to and useful for Natural Language Processing (NLP) practitioners with minimal (or even no) prior training in linguistics. Meaning is a fundamental concept in 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 solutions, researchers in these fields must be informed by what is known about how humans use language to express and understand communicative intents.
ISBN: 9781681730738 | PDF ISBN: 9781681730745 | Hardcover ISBN: 9781681736211
Morgan & Claypool Publishers
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