Natural Language Processing in Prolog: An Introduction to Computational Linguistics

Highlights of the book include:

• State-of-the-art techniques in syntax, semantics and pragmatics
• Careful motivation of the techniques via examples in a consistent notation
• A wealth of program listings showing applications in Prolog
• Graded exercises integrated into each chapter, to aid self-study and test understanding as the subject is developed

It will be an ideal textbook for courses on NLP or computational linguistics, or one of several texts on artificial intelligence, in departments of computer science, AI, linguistics, psychology and philosophy. It will also be of great interest to professionals in the 'AI business' developing practical NLP applications using Prolog. Versions of this book using LISP and POP-11 are also available.

Gerald Gazdar, of the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the University of Sussex, has written extensively on matters relevant to NLP, including books on Pragmatics and Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar. Chris Mellish, of the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh, is a noted researcher on NLP, author of Computer Interpretation of Natural Language Descriptions, and co-author of Programming in Prolog.