Challenges in Natural Language

This book addresses theoretical or applied work in the field of natural language processing.

Preface; Symposium participants; Part I. Challenging Problems: 1. Critical changes for natural language processing Madeleine Bates, Robert J. Bobrow and Ralph M. Weischedel; Part II. Building a Lexicon: 2. The contribution of lexicography B. T. Sue Atkins; 3. The contribution of linguistics Beth Levin; 4. The contribution of computational lexicology Branimar K. Boguraev; Part III. Semantics and Knowledge Representation: 5. Events, situations and adverbs Robert C. Moore; 6. Natural language, knowledge representation and logical form James F. Allen; Part IV. Discourse: 7. Getting and keeping the center of attention Rebecca J. Passonneau; 8. Surface structure, intonation and discourse meaning Mark Steedman; Part V. Spoken Language Systems: 9. Prosody, intonation and speech technology Janet Pierrehumbert; Part VI. Conclusion: 10. The future of computational linguistics Madeleine Bates and Ralph M. Weischedel; Author index; Subject index.