Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing II: 100 Essentials from Semantics and Pragmatics Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies Paperback 1681730731 9781681730738 Emily

• Format: Paperback
• Author: Emily
• ISBN10: 1681730731
• ISBN13: 9781681730738

Meaning is a fundamental concept in Natural Language Processing NLP , in the tasks of both Natural Language Understanding NLU and Natural Language Generation NLG .

This is because the aims of these fields are to build systems that understand what people mean when they speak or write, and that can produce linguistic strings that successfully express to people the intended content. In order for NLP to scale beyond partial, task-specific solutions, researchers in these fields must be informed by what is known about how humans use language to express and understand communicative intents. The purpose of this book is to present a selection of useful information about semantics and pragmatics, as understood in linguistics, in a way thats accessible to and useful for NLP practitioners with minimal or even no prior training in linguistics.