Prolog and Natural-Language Analysis – Digital Edition

This book is an introduction to elementary computational linguistics from the point of view of logic programming. The connection between computational linguistics and logic programming has both formal and utilitarian aspects. On the formal side, this book explores the restricted logical language of definite clauses as a means of expressing linguistic analyses and representations. On the utilitarian side, this book introduces the logic-programming language Prolog, whose backbone is the definite-clause formalism, as a tool for implementing the basic components of natural-language-processing systems.