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This is a deeply impressive book by a prominent linguist. As always, Professor Halliday's contributions are pervasively readable and stimulating. Jan Svartvik, Emeritus Professor, Lund University, Sweden. Throughout his careerProfessor Hallidayhas continued to address the issue of the application of linguistic scholarship to Computational and Quantitative Studies. The sixth volume in the collected works of Professor M. A. K. Halliday includes works that span the last five decades, coveringdevelopments in machine translation and corpus linguistics. The principles and methods outlined in these papers remain as relevant today as when they were first published, continuing to point the way forward in an endeavour where success depends more on advancing our knowledge of language than machines.

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Author:   Jonathan J. Webster (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) ,  M.A.K. Halliday (University of Sydney, Australia)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.484kg
ISBN:  

9780826488268

ISBN 10:   0826488269
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   23 May 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

"1Machine translation: the early years Editor's Introduction 1 The linguistic basis of a mechanical thesaurus, and its application to English preposition classification 2 Linguistics and machine translation 2Probabilistic grammar and the corpus Editor's Introduction 3 Towards probabilistic interpretations 4 Corpus studies and probabilistic grammar 5 Language as system and language as instance: the corpus as a theoretical construct 6 [with Z L James] A quantitative study of polarity and primary tense in the English Finite clause 7 Quantitative studies and probabilities in grammar 8 The spoken language corpus 3Towards ""intelligent computing"" (computing with Meaning) Editor's Introduction 9 On language in relation to fuzzy logic and intelligent computing 10 Fuzzy grammatics: a systemic functional approach to fuzziness in neutral language 11 Computing meaning: some reflections on past experience and present prospects Appendix: Systems of the English clause: a trial grammar for the PENMAN text generation project. [Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California]"

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"""There are a number of intriguing ideas and comments to be found in the papers....Also there are some interesting speculations about how language changes that manifest themselves initially through probabilities might eventually lead to changes in the underlying systems themselves."" Chris Mellish, Journal of Computational Linguistics This is a deeply impressive book by a prominent linguist. As always, Professor Halliday's contributions are pervasively readable and stimulating. JAN SVARTVIK EMERITUS PROFESSOR, LUND UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN * Blurb from reviewer * '... a major enterprise comparable to a grand retrospective of the paintings of some prominent artist of a distinctive school.' Roy Harris, Times Literary Supplement * Blurb from reviewer *"

'This is a deeply impressive book by a prominent linguist. As always, Professor Halliday's contributions are pervasively readable and stimulating.' Jan Svartvik Emeritus Professor, Lund University, Sweden '...a major enterprise comparable to a grand retrospective of the paintings of some prominent artist of a distinctive school.' Roy Harris, Times Literary Supplement

Author Information

Professor Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong. He is also the Managing Editor of the International Linguistics Association’s journal WORD, and the editor of the forthcoming Journal of World Languages (2014). M.A.K. Halliday was Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney.

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