Semantic Analysis

Author : Cliff Goddard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199560285
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semantic Analysis written by Cliff Goddard and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively introduction to methods for articulating the meanings of words and sentences, and revealing connections between language and culture. It shows that the study of meaning can be rigorous, insightful, and exciting.

Author : Thomas K. Landauer
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135603286
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Latent Semantic Analysis written by Thomas K. Landauer and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Latent Semantic Analysis is the authoritative reference for the theory behind Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), a burgeoning mathematical method used to analyze how words make meaning, with the desired outcome to program machines to understand human commands via natural language rather than strict programming protocols. The first book of its kind to deliver such a comprehensive analysis, this volume explores every area of the method and combines theoretical implications as well as practical matters of LSA. Readers are introduced to a powerful new way of understanding language phenomena, as well as innovative ways to perform tasks that depend on language or other complex systems. The Handbook clarifies misunderstandings and pre-formed objections to LSA, and provides examples of exciting new educational technologies made possible by LSA and similar techniques. It raises issues in philosophy, artificial intelligence, and linguistics, while describing how LSA has underwritten a range of educational technologies and information systems. Alternate approaches to language understanding are addressed and compared to LSA. This work is essential reading for anyone—newcomers to this area and experts alike—interested in how human language works or interested in computational analysis and uses of text. Educational technologists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, and information technologists in particular will consider this volume especially useful.

Author : Reinhard Wilhelm
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642175406
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Compiler Design written by Reinhard Wilhelm and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While compilers for high-level programming languages are large complex software systems, they have particular characteristics that differentiate them from other software systems. Their functionality is almost completely well-defined – ideally there exist complete precise descriptions of the source and target languages. Additional descriptions of the interfaces to the operating system, programming system and programming environment, and to other compilers and libraries are often available. This book deals with the analysis phase of translators for programming languages. It describes lexical, syntactic and semantic analysis, specification mechanisms for these tasks from the theory of formal languages, and methods for automatic generation based on the theory of automata. The authors present a conceptual translation structure, i.e., a division into a set of modules, which transform an input program into a sequence of steps in a machine program, and they then describe the interfaces between the modules. Finally, the structures of real translators are outlined. The book contains the necessary theory and advice for implementation. This book is intended for students of computer science. The book is supported throughout with examples, exercises and program fragments.

Author : Eivind Kahrs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521631884
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Semantic Analysis written by Eivind Kahrs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian tradition of semantic elucidation known as nirvacana analysis represented a powerful hermeneutic tool in the exegesis and transmission of authoritative scripture. Nevertheless, it has all too frequently been dismissed by modern scholars as anything from folk-etymology to a primitive forerunner of historical linguistics. Eivind Kahrs argues that such views fall short of explaining both its acceptance within the sophisticated grammatical tradition of vyakarana and its effective usage in the processing of Sanskrit texts. He establishes his argument by investigating the learned Sanskrit literature of Saiva Kashmir and explains the nirvacana tradition in the light of a model substitution, used at least since the time of the Upanisads and later refined in the technical literatures of grammar and ritual. According to this model, a substitute (adesa) takes the place (sthana) of the original placeholder (sthanin). On the basis of a searching analysis of Sanskrit texts, the author argues that this sthana place can be interpreted as meaning , the model thereby providing favourable circumstances for reinterpretation and change.

Author : Elad Segev
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000471918
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semantic Network Analysis in Social Sciences written by Elad Segev and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semantic Network Analysis in Social Sciences introduces the fundamentals of semantic network analysis and its applications in the social sciences. Readers learn how to easily transform any given text into a visual network of words co-occurring together, a process that allows mapping the main themes appearing in the text and revealing its main narratives and biases. Semantic network analysis is particularly useful today with the increasing volumes of text-based information available. It is one of the developing, cutting-edge methods to organize, identify patterns and structures, and understand the meanings of our information society. The first chapters in this book offer step-by-step guidelines for conducting semantic network analysis, including choosing and preparing the text, selecting desired words, constructing the networks, and interpreting their meanings. Free software tools and code are also presented. The rest of the book displays state-of-the-art studies from around the world that apply this method to explore news, political speeches, social media content, and even to organize interview transcripts and literature reviews. Aimed at scholars with no previous knowledge in the field, this book can be used as a main or a supplementary textbook for general courses on research methods or network analysis courses, as well as a starting point to conduct your own content analysis of large texts.

Author : Wolfgang Minker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461552559
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stochastically-Based Semantic Analysis written by Wolfgang Minker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stochastically-Based Semantic Analysis investigates the problem of automatic natural language understanding in a spoken language dialog system. The focus is on the design of a stochastic parser and its evaluation with respect to a conventional rule-based method. Stochastically-Based Semantic Analysis will be of most interest to researchers in artificial intelligence, especially those in natural language processing, computational linguistics, and speech recognition. It will also appeal to practicing engineers who work in the area of interactive speech systems.

Author : Yulia Zinova
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961102988
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian verbal prefixation written by Yulia Zinova and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the complexity of Russian verbal prefixation system that has been extensively studied but yet not explained. Traditionally, different meanings have been investigated and listed in the dictionaries and grammars and more recently linguists attempted to unify various prefix usages under more general descriptions. The existent semantic approaches, however, do not aim to use semantic representations in order to account for the problems of prefix stacking and aspect determination. This task has been so far undertaken by syntactic approaches to prefixation, that divide verbal prefixes in classes and limit complex verb formation by restricting structural positions available for the members of each class. I show that these approaches have two major drawbacks: the implicit prediction of the non-existence of complex biaspectual verbs and the absence of uniformly accepted formal criteria for the underlying prefix classification. In this book the reader can find an implementable formal semantic approach to prefixation that covers five prefixes: za-, na-, po-, pere-, and do-. It is shown how to predict the existence, semantics, and aspect of a given complex verb with the help of the combination of an LTAG and frame semantics. The task of identifying the possible affix combinations is distributed between three modules: syntax, which is kept simple (only basic structural assumptions), frame semantics, which ensures that the constraints are respected, and pragmatics, which rules out some prefixed verbs and restricts the range of available interpretations. For the purpose of the evaluation of the theory, an implementation of the proposed analysis for a grammar fragment using a metagrammar description is provided. It is shown that the proposed analysis delivers more accurate and complete predictions with respect to the existence of complex verbs than the most precise syntactic account.

Author : Sören Stenlund
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9789027704382
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logical Theory and Semantic Analysis written by Sören Stenlund and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1974-06-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Linda R. Waugh
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 : 9789004045729
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Semantic Analysis of Word Order written by Linda R. Waugh and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1977 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alberto Amato
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461454859
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semantic Analysis and Understanding of Human Behavior in Video Streaming written by Alberto Amato and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semantic Analysis and Understanding of Human Behaviour in Video Streaming investigates the semantic analysis of the human behaviour captured by video streaming, and introduces both theoretical and technological points of view. Video analysis based on the semantic content is in fact still an open issue for the computer vision research community, especially when real-time analysis of complex scenes is concerned. This book explores an innovative, original approach to human behaviour analysis and understanding by using the syntactical symbolic analysis of images and video streaming described by means of strings of symbols. A symbol is associated to each area of the analyzed scene. When a moving object enters an area, the corresponding symbol is appended to the string describing the motion. This approach allows for characterizing the motion of a moving object with a word composed by symbols. By studying and classifying these words we can categorize and understand the various behaviours. The main advantage of this approach lies in the simplicity of the scene and motion descriptions so that the behaviour analysis will have limited computational complexity due to the intrinsic nature both of the representations and the related operations used to manipulate them. Besides, the structure of the representations is well suited for possible parallel processing, thus allowing for speeding up the analysis when appropriate hardware architectures are used. A new methodology for design systems for hierarchical high semantic level analysis of video streaming in narrow domains is also proposed. Guidelines to design your own system are provided in this book. Designed for practitioners, computer scientists and engineers working within the fields of human computer interaction, surveillance, image processing and computer vision, this book can also be used as secondary text book for advanced-level students in computer science and engineering.