Unify and merge in fluid construction grammar

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4211 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 197-223

  Steels, Luc ^a,b   De Beule, Joachim ^b  

^a SONY Computer Science Laboratory Paris   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

GRAMMAR FORMALISMS; LANGUAGE EVOLUTION; LEARNING PROCESSES; LINGUISTICS RESEARCH;

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS;

EID: 33750299678     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11880172_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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