Human language technology's main purpose is to allow the use of automatic systems and tools to assist humans in producing and accessing information, to improve communication between humans, and to assist humans in communicating with machines. The following is a book which readers of this list might find of interest. An Electronic Lexical Database edited by Christiane Fellbaum with a preface by George Miller WordNet, an electronic lexical database, is considered to be the most important resource available to researchers in computational linguistics, text analysis, and many related areas. Its design is inspired by current psycholinguistic and computational theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept.
Different relations link the synonym sets.
The purpose of this volume is twofold. First, it discusses the design of the current version of WordNet and the theoretical motivations behind it. Second, it provides a survey of representative applications, including word sense identification, information retrieval, selectional preferences of verbs, and lexical chains. Christiane Fellbaum is a Research Scientist in the Department of Psychology at Princeton University and an Associate Professor at Rider University. John Benjamins Publishing Company Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.