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Finite-state language processing
"A Bradford book."Finite-state devices, which include finite-state automata, graphs, and finite-state transducers, are in wide use in many areas of computer science. Recently, there has been a resurgence of the use of finite-state devices in all aspects of computational linguistics, including dictionary encoding, text processing, and speech processing. This book describes the fundamental proper…
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- 1 online resource (xv, 464 pages) :illustrations.
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The Formal Semantics of Programming Languages: An Introduction
"The Formal Semantics of Programming Languages provides the basic mathematical techniques necessary for those who are beginning a study of the semantics and logics of programming languages. These techniques will allow students to invent, formalize, and justify rules with which to reason about a variety of programming languages. Although the treatment is elementary, several of the topics covered…
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- 9780262291453
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 361 pages) :illustrations.
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Linguistic bodies :the continuity between life and language
A novel theoretical framework for an embodied, non-representational approach to language that extends and deepens enactive theory, bridging the gap between sensorimotor skills and language. Linguistic Bodies offers a fully embodied and fully social treatment of human language without positing mental representations. The authors present the first coherent, overarching theory that connects dynami…
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- 9780262347280
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- 1 online resource (xii, 414 pages)
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Extraterrestrial languages
If we send a message into space, will extraterrestrial beings receive it? Will they understand?The endlessly fascinating question of whether we are alone in the universe has always been accompanied by another, more complicated one: if there is extraterrestrial life, how would we communicate with it? In this book, Daniel Oberhaus leads readers on a quest for extraterrestrial communication. Explo…
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From molecule to metaphor: A Neural theory of language
"A Bradford book."In From Molecule to Metaphor, Jerome Feldman proposes a theory of language and thought that treats language not as an abstract symbol system but as a human biological ability that can be studied as a function of the brain, as vision and motor control are studied. This theory, he writes, is a "bridging theory" that works from extensive knowledge at two ends of a causal chain to…
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- 1 online resource (xx, 357 pages) :illustrations
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Translating happiness :a cross-cultural lexicon of well-being
How embracing untranslatable terms for well-being - from the Finnish sisu to the Yiddish mensch - can enrich our emotional understanding and experience. Western psychology is rooted in the philosophies and epistemologies of Western culture. But what of concepts and insights from outside this frame of reference?OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262344630
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- 1 online resource (xv, 223 pages)
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The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age
How traditional learning institutions can become as innovative, flexible, robust, and collaborative as the best social networking sites. Over the past two decades, the way we learn has changed dramatically. We have new sources of information and new ways to exchange and to interact with information. But our schools and the way we teach have remained largely the same for years, even centuries…
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Image objects :an archaeology of computer graphics
"Though an analysis of five objects that have shaped the history of computer graphics, this book explores what historical technologies shaped and limited the development of simulated images"--Edited version of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2014, under the title: Image objects : an archaeology of 3D computer graphics, 1965-1979.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262361795
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Markov Random Fields for Vision and Image Processing
State-of-the-art research on MRFs, successful MRF applications, and advanced topics for future study.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298353
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- 1 online resource (vii, 463 pages) :illustrations
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The new economics :for industry, government, education
A new edition of a book that details the system of transformation underlying the 14 Points for Management presented in Deming's Out of the Crisis . It would be better if everyone would work together as a system, with the aim for everybody to win. What we need is cooperation and transformation to a new style of management." --from The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education In this boo…
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- 9780262355445
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- 1 online resource (240 pages).
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