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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783615603321

Autore

Creswell Cassandre <1976, >

Titolo

Syntactic form and discourse function in natural language generation / / Cassandre Creswell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-87620-7

1-135-87621-5

1-280-28879-5

9786610288793

0-203-48712-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (179 p.)

Collana

Outstanding dissertations in linguistics

Classificazione

17.52

Disciplina

410/.285

Soggetti

Computational linguistics

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax - Data processing

Discourse analysis - Data processing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-173) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Dedications; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1. Introduction; 2. Background: Previous Work and Relevant Theory; 3. A Goal-based Model of Syntactic Choice; 4. An Empirical Study of Discourse Structure and Non-canonical Word Order; 5. Conclusions and Future Directions; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book makes extensive use of previously unexamined naturally occuring corpus data of non-canonical word order in English, both to illustrate the points of the theoretical model and to train the statistical model.