Bücher der Reihe Text, Translation, Computational Processing [TTCP]

The book aims to encourage multiple perspective reading attitudes, which are meant to trigger and inspire new ways of viewing and engineering information. An innovative linguistic theory as well as a new model for text generation and text understanding are illustrated. The linguistic theory, enhanced by a novel artificial intelligence-based approach, will help readers to acquire information engineering skills and may be implemented in the design of knowledge management systems.

Research in Natural Language Processing is critically dependent on adequate electronic text resources and a rich representation of lexical knowledge. This title presents a collection of papers, selected from contributions to the 9th conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2008), that explores their dynamic interaction.

It is generally agreed that knowledge plays an important role in translation and interpreting and that it should therefore be of central concern to studies in this field.

The main concern of this book is to look at the communication of conceptual structures. It investigates how speakers rely on the same cognitive dispositions in three different areas of transfer. These areas look at, metonymies and metaphors, intercultural communication and expert-lay communication.

Moving beyond the notion of "content" in thinking about language and translation, this book is an attempt to face the demands of translation and multilingual text production by modelling texts as configurations of multidimensional meanings, rather than as containers of "content".

Casting light on the interplay between language and domain-specific knowledge, this book brings together ideas and approaches from cognitive linguistics and psychology, explaining how language works.

The series serves to propagate investigations into language usage, especially with respect to computational support. This includes all forms of text handling activity, not only interlingual translations, but also conversions carried out in response to different communicative tasks. Among the major topics are problems of text transfer and the interplay between human and machine activities.