Constraints and language / / edited by Philippe Blache [and four others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817789203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-4438-6890-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (325 p.)
• Disciplina: 410.285
• Soggetti: Computational linguistics; Constraints (Linguistics)
• 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 at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF TABLES; PREFACE; Part I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; Part II; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; Part III; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: The concept of ""constraint"" is widely used in linguistics, computer science, and psychology. However, its implementation varies widely depending on the research domain: namely, language description, knowledge representation, cognitive modelling, and problem solving. These various uses of constraints offer complementary views on intelligent mechanisms. For example, in-depth descriptions implementing constraints are used in linguistics to filter out syntactic or discursive structures by means o...