This book records a unique attempt over a ten-year period to use stochastic optimization in the natural language processing domain. Setting the work against the background of the logical rule-based approach, the author provides a context for understanding the differences in assumptions about the nature of language and cognition.
Author Biography
Geoffrey Sampson is former Professor of Natural Language Computing at the School of Informatics, University of Sussex, UK. He is now Research Fellow at the University of South Africa.
