Special issue: Computational linguistics and logic programming

Introduction to Special Issue on Natural Language and Logic Programming

Guest editors' introduction Special issue: abductive logic programming

Declarative problem solving attempts to tackle problems using a high-level representation of the expert knowledge on the problem at hand. In a logical setting such a declarative representation would employ an alphabet of constants, functions and predicate symbols that naturally represent objects, functions and relationships between these objects in the domain of discourse. In a truly declarativ...

Constraint Programming in Computational Linguistics

Constraint programming is a programming paradigm that was originally invented in computer science to deal with hard combinatorial problems. Recently, constraint programming has evolved into a technology which permits to solve hard industrial scheduling and optimization problems. We argue that existing constraint programming technology can be useful for applications in natural language processin...

Microsyntactic Phenomena as a Computational Linguistics Issue

Microsyntactic linguistic units, such as syntactic idioms and non-standard syntactic constructions, are poorly represented in linguistic resources, mostly because the former are elements occupying an intermediate position between the lexicon and the grammar and the latter are too specific to be routinely tackled by general grammars. Consequently, many such units produce substantial gaps in syst...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Digital Humanities and Computational Linguistics

Digital Humanities (DH) seeks to support research into Humanities disciplines using digital, computational techniques. Its exact definition is discussed often and may even be the subject of interesting debate (Vanhoutte, Nyhan, and Terras 2013), but we do not need to linger too long on definitional issues. At this time, DH invites contribution from all Humanities disciplines, including those wh...