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Programmatic parsing and understanding of language (English)

Hello,

I am looking for some resources pertaining to the parsing and understanding of English (or just human language in general). While this is obviously a fairly complicated and wide field of study, I was wondering if anyone had any book or internet recommendations for study of the subject. I am aware of the basics, such as searching for copulas to draw word relationships, but anything you guys recommend I will be sure to thoroughly read.

Thanks.

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Check out WordNet.

Noon Silk  2010-02-26 03:52:53
Wow. That's great! Thanks!
beta  2010-02-26 04:05:51
WordNet is a database. It doesn't help with with answering "parsing and understanding".
z5h  2010-02-26 04:21:58
@z5h: Actually, it does help with "parsing and understanding" precisely because it *is* a database (i.e. definitions) of what is what. When you know what is what, you can make decisions about it, and hence "understand" it.
Noon Silk  2010-02-26 04:31:02
@silky. I understand. But it's kind of like pointing someone who wants to learn English to a Dictionary. In theory it's all they need. In practice, the Dictionary alone will not get them anywhere.I commented because you were awarded the "correct" answer, and I felt your response was not complete. Anyone reading SO will now be aware of that.I did not up/downvote.
z5h  2010-02-26 04:46:14
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You probably want a book like "Representation and Inference for Natural Language - A First Course in Computational Semantics"

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jbos/comsem/book1.html

z5h  2010-02-26 04:18:16

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