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Kambarov, Zaur
The Concept of Definiteness and Its Application to Automated Reference Resolution
English and German
Series: Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics - Volume 69
Year of Publication: 2008
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2008. X, 150 pp.
ISBN 978-1-4331-0224-0 hardback
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Weight: 0.440 kg, 0.970 lbs
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Book synopsis
This book is a study of the category of definiteness in the light of research on mental spaces and frames. The author formulates a set of eight uniform rules for the use of the definite, indefinite, and zero articles in English and German. The Concept of Definiteness presents an algorithm for nominal reference resolution that uses the definiteness value of each noun phrase to guide the search for its referent. The book discusses the results of the application of an automated system based on the proposed algorithm to texts in modern English. It also demonstrates applicability of the selected approach to text fragments representing all major historical variants of the German language.
About the author(s)/editor(s)
The Author: Zaur Kambarov was awarded the University of California Regents Intern Fellowship in 2002. He received his M.S. in computer science and his Ph.D. in German from the University of California, Berkeley. Kambarov works as a senior software engineer on automated detection of defects in computer programs in San Francisco.
Series
Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics. Vol. 69
General Editor: Irmengard Rauch