English for the Computer: The Susanne Corpus and Analytic Scheme

by Geoffrey Sampson

Computer processing of natural language is a burgeoning field, but until now there has been no agreement on a standardized classification of the diverse structural elements that occur in real-life language material. This book attempts to define a "Linnaean taxonomy" for the English language: an annotation scheme, the SUSANNE scheme, which yields a labelled constituency structure for any string of English, comprehensively identifying all of its surface...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198240236
• ISBN13: 9780198240235
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 508 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"