I show how a conversational process that takes simple, intuitively meaningful steps may be understood as a sophisticated computation that derives the richly detailed, complex repr...
We introduce a foundational language for modelling applications over global computers whose interconnection structure can be explicitly manipulated. Together with process distribut...
It is a tacit assumption of much linguisticinquiry that alldistinctderivations of a string should assign distinct meanings. But despite the tidinessof such derivational uniqueness...
"Can computers meaningfully process human language? If this is difficult, why? If this is possible, how? This book introduces the reader to the fascinating science of computat...