ETAPS 2006 was the ninth instance of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software. ETAPS is an annual federated conference that was established in 1998 by combining a number of existing and new conferences. This year it comprised?ve conferences (CC, ESOP, FA…
In this thesis we investigate the potential of developing a speech recognition system based on a recently introduced artificial neural network (ANN) technique, namely Reservoir Computing (RC). This technique has, in theory, a higher capability for modelling dynamic behaviour com…
Eine große Wissensbasis ist eine Voraussetzung für eine Vielzahl von Anwendungen im Bereich der automatischen Sprachverarbeitung, wie Frage-Antwort- oder Information-Retrieval-Systeme. Ein Mensch hat sich das erforderliche Wissen, um Informationen zu suchen oder Fragen zu beantw…
This book introduces formal semantics techniques for a natural language processing audience. Methods discussed involve: (i) the denotational techniques used in model-theoretic semantics, which make it possible to determine whether a linguistic expression is true or false with re…
The central task of a future-oriented computational linguistics is the development of cognitive machines which humans can freely talk with in their respective natural language. In the long run, this task will ensure the development of a functional theory of language, an objectiv…
