A tutorial on natural-language processing
Gary G. Hendrix, Jaime Carbonell · 1981
This tutorial focuses on the problems of enabling computers to communicate with humans in natural languages, such as English and French, as distinguished from formal languages, such as BASIC and FORTRAN. Understanding the computational mechanisms that underlie the use of natural language is the central objective of computational linguistics1 a science at the juncture of artificial intelligence, linguistics, psychology and philosophy. The three primary goals of this field are: