Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies: 100 Essentials from Semantics and Pragmatics

Bender, Emily M.; Lascarides, Alex

Meaning is a fundamental concept in Natural Language Processing (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. 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 NLP practitioners with minimal (or even no) prior training in linguistics.

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Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2019-11-06

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783031010446

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-02172-5

Dimensions: 235cm x191cm

Pages: 250