Rens Bod

Summary: "Alfa's schrijven de geschiedenis, maar bèta's maken de geschiedenis", liet Ronald Plasterk zich eens ontvallen. Deze uitspraak toont aan hoe onzichtbaar de grote doorbraken in de alfawetenschappen zijn. Toch hebben hun ontdekkingen en inzichten de wereld veranderd. Hoewel er zelden sprake is van wetten, zijn er wel verbanden, structuren en regels te vinden in taal, literatuur, muziek en kunst. Rens Bod laat zien hoe vanaf de Oudheid alfawetenschappers uit India, China, Afrika en Europa zijn omgesprongen met hun materiaal en welke patronen zij hebben gevonden. Hun bevindingen hebben de maatschappij ingrijpend beïnvloed: de ontdekking van een grammatica voor het Sanskriet leidde tot de eerste programmeertalen, en de ontdekking van harmonische samenklanken resulteerde in het ooit dominante wereldbeeld 'de harmonie der sferen'.

een geschiedenis van de humaniora

De vergeten wetenschappen

Offers the first overarching history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present.

The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present

A New History of the Humanities

Jennifer Hay

Stefanie Jannedy

For the past forty years, linguistics has been dominated by the idea that language is categorical and linguistic competence discrete. It has become increasingly clear, however, that many levels of representation, from phonemes to sentence structure, show probabilistic properties, as does the language faculty. Probabilistic linguistics conceptualizes categories as distributions and views knowledge of language not as a minimal set of categorical constraints but as a set of gradient rules that may be characterized by a statistical distribution. Whereas categorical approaches focus on the endpoints of distributions of linguistic phenomena, probabilistic approaches focus on the gradient middle ground. Probabilistic linguistics integrates all the progress made by linguistics thus far with a probabilistic perspective. This book presents a comprehensive introduction to probabilistic approaches to linguistic inquiry. It covers the application of probabilistic techniques to phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. It also includes a tutorial on elementary probability theory and probabilistic grammars.

Probabilistic Linguistics

The result is an enlightening symphony, a stirring chorus of human inquisitiveness extending through the ages.

A Global History of Knowledge

World of Patterns

Remko Scha

Khalil Sima'an

Data-Oriented Parsing (DOP) is one of the leading paradigms in Statistical Natural Language Processing. In this volume, a collection of computational linguists offer a state-of-the-art overview of DOP, suitable for students and researchers in natural language processing and speech recognition as well as for computational linguistics. This handbook begins with the theoretical background of DOP and introduces the algorithms used in DOP as well as in other probabilistic grammar models. After surveying extensions to the basic DOP model, the volume concludes with close study of the applications that use DOP as a backbone: speech understanding, machine translation, and language learning.

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