Natural Language Processing

These proceedings of an advanced school in AI have a textbook character. The topics were chosen to provide a balanced overview of the most important ideas in natural language processing today.

Inhalt
General introduction.- Methods and tools for lexical acquisition.- X-bar theory: Its role in GB theory.- Information-based linguistics and head-driven phrase structure.- Three lectures on situation theoretic grammar.- Basic aspects of the theory of generalized quantifiers.- The semantics of tense and aspect.- Simplifying and correcting the treatment of intentionality in Montague semantics.- Compositionality and omniscience in situation semantics.- Some remarks on first-order intensional logic.- References.