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Record Nr.

UNINA9910437591903321

Titolo

Puzzles in Logic, Languages and Computation : The Red Book / / edited by Dragomir Radev

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013

ISBN

3-642-34378-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 p.)

Collana

Recreational Linguistics ; ; 1

Disciplina

410.285

Soggetti

Computational linguistics

Artificial intelligence

Computational Linguistics

Artificial Intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword by James Pustejovsky -- Preface -- Volume 1 Problems -- Volume 1. Solutions -- Index of Languages -- Index of Computational Topics -- Index of Other Topics -- About the Editor.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first volume of a unique collection that brings together the best English-language problems created for students competing in the Computational Linguistics Olympiad. These problems are representative of the diverse areas presented in the competition and designed with three principles in mind: ·  To challenge the student analytically, without requiring any explicit knowledge or experience in linguistics or computer science; ·  To expose the student to the different kinds of reasoning required when encountering a new phenomenon in a language, both as a theoretical topic and as an applied problem; ·  To foster the natural curiosity students have about the workings of their own language, as well as to introduce them to the beauty and structure of other languages; ·  To learn about the models and techniques used by computers to understand human language. Aside from being a fun intellectual challenge, the Olympiad mimics the skills used by researchers and scholars in the field of computational linguistics. In an increasingly global economy where businesses operate across borders and languages, having a strong pool of computational



linguists is a competitive advantage, and an important component to both security and growth in the 21st century. This collection of problems is a wonderful general introduction to the field of linguistics through the analytic problem solving technique. "A fantastic collection of problems for anyone who is curious about how human language works! These books take serious scientific questions and present them in a fun, accessible way. Readers exercise their logical thinking capabilities while learning about a wide range of human languages, linguistic phenomena, and computational models. " - Kevin Knight, USC Information Sciences Institute.