1. Words -- 2. Fans and heads -- 3. Classification, concept-formation and language -- 4. The potentialities of a mechanical thesaurus -- 5. What is a thesaurus? -- 6. 'Agricola in curvo terram dimovit arator' -- 7. Mechanical pidgin translation -- 8. Translation -- 9. Commentary on the Guberina hypothesis -- 10. Semantic algorithms -- 11. Braithwaite and Kuhn : analogy-clusters within and without hypothetico-deductive systems in science -- Bibliography of the scientific works of Margaret Masterman
Summary
"Margaret Masterman was a pioneer in the field of computational linguistics. This volume brings together Masterman's groundbreaking papers for the first time. Through his insightful commentaries, Yorick Wilks argues that Masterman came close to developing a computational theory of language meaning based on the ideas of Wittgenstein, and shows the importance of her work in the philosophy of science and the nature of iconic languages. Of key interest in computational linguistics and artificial intelligence, it will remind scholars of Masterman's significant contribution to the field."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-309) and index
