Language, Cohesion and Form
Margaret Masterman
Edited, with an introduction and commentaries, by
Yorick Wilks
University Press
2005
[ISBN: 13-978-0-521-45489-6; 10 0-521-45489-1]
Contents
* Starred chapters have following commentaries by the editor (and by Karen Spärck Jones for chapter 6)
Preface … ix
Editor’s introduction … 1
Part 1: Basic forms for language structure … 19
1. Words … 21
2. Fans and heads * … 39
3. Classification, concept-formation and language … 57
Part 2: The thesaurus as a tool for machine translation … 81
4. The potentialities of a mechanical thesaurus … 83
5. What is a thesaurus? … 107
Part 3: Experiments in machine translation … 147
6. ‘Agricola in curvo terram dimovit aratro’ * … 149
7. Mechanical pidgin translation … 161
8. Translation* … 187
Part 4: Phrasings, breath groups and text processing … 225
9. Commentary on the Guberina hypothesis … 227
10. Semantic algorithms* … 253
Part 5: Metaphor, analogy and the philosophy of science … 281
11. Braithwaite and Kuhn: Analogy-clusters within and without hypothetico-deductive systems in science … 283
Bibliography of the scientific works of Margaret Masterman … 299
Other references … 304
Index … 311