Natural Language Understanding (Second Edition)

Author: (USA) Allen (Allen/J.) / Liu Qun et al.
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book is a classic textbook on natural language understanding. It comprehensively and deeply introduces the theories and techniques used in the field of natural language understanding, divided into three main parts: syntactic processing, semantic interpretation, and context and world knowledge. It specifically explores various aspects such as context-free grammar, chart syntax parser, transition network formalism, logical form language, knowledge representation, discourse structure, pragmatic reasoning, and conversational agents. The book balances theory and practice, with clear and concise explanations, making it easy to understand. It is adopted by many universities worldwide as a textbook for natural language understanding. For researchers in this field, it is also an excellent reference book.