Books ReceivedComputational Linguistics, Volume 14, Number 1, Winter 1988

Book Reviews

Books Received

Harold Somers is a Lecturer at UMIST, member of the machine translation research group there, and is the author of Case and Valency in Computational Linguistics (Edinburgh University Press, 1987). He was recently a visiting research fellow at Toshiba Corpo­ration's r&d Center in Japan. Somers's address is: Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1qd, England. E-mail: hls@ccl.umist.ac.uk. Books listed below that are marked with a t will be reviewed in a future issue; reviewers are still sought for those marked with an asterisk. Readers who wish to review books for the journal should write, outlining their qualifications, to the book review editor, Graeme Hirst, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4. Obviously, we cannot promise the availability of books in anyone's exact area of interest. Authors and publishers who wish their books to be considered for review in Computational Linguistics should send a copy to the book review editor at the address above. All books received will be listed, but not all can be reviewed.

[University of Rochester] Natural language understanding Menlo Park, CA: Benjamin/Cummings, 1987, fAllen, Jonathan; Hunnicutt, M. Sharon; and Klatt, Dennis; with Armstrong, Robert C. and Pisoni, David [MIT; Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm; MIT; MIT; Indiana University] From Text to Speech: The MITalk System (Cambridge studies in speech science and communica­tion)

xvi+574 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-8053-0330-8

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press,

1987, xi+216 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-521-30641-8, $29.95
[Cornell University]For truth in semantics(Philosophical theory series) Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986, xix+186 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-631-14596-6, £22.50

[SRI International Cambridge] Memory and context for language interpretation (Studies in natural language processing) Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, discount to ACL members]

1987, ix+188 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-521-34059-4, $29.95 [20%

t Altenberg, Bengt

[Lund University]

Prosodie patterns in spoken English: Studies in the correlation between prosody and grammar for text-to-speech conversion (Lund studies in English 76) Baecker, Ronald M. and Buxton, William A. S. (writers and editors)

Lund: Lund University Press, 1987, 225 ppPaperback, ISBN 0-86238-125-8 and 91-7966-002-9, Skr 178.-

[University of Toronto] Readings in human-computer interaction: A multidis-

ciplinary approach Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1987,

xiii+738 pp Paperback, ISBN 0-934613-24-9, $32.95

[Université Libre de Bruxelles] The onset of literacy: Cognitive processes in reading

acquisition (Cognition special issues series) [Reprinted from volume 24 of Cognition: International

journal of cognitive science] Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press/Bradford Books,

1987, 174 pp Paperbound, ISBN 0-262-52125-3, $15.00

[University of Nottingham] POP-11 programming for artificial intelligence (International Computer Science Series) Wokingham, England: Addison-Wesley, 1987,

xi+207 pp Paperback, ISBN 0-201-18049-9, $21.95

[Simon Fraser University and University of Saskatch­ewan] The knowledge frontier: Essays in the representation Charniak, Eugene; Riesbeck, Christopher Kevin; Mc-Dermott, Drew Vincent; Meehan, James R.

of knowledge(Symbolic computation series: artificial intelligence) NY: Springer, 1987, xi+512 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-387-96557-2, $40.00

[Brown University; Yale University; Yale Univer­sity; Cognitive Systems Inc] Artificial intelligence programming (second edition) Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1987, tChurch, Kenneth W.

xvi+533 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-89859-609-2, $34.50

[AT&T Bell Laboratories] Phonological parsing in speech recognition

discount to ACL members]

(The Kluwer international series in electrical engineer­ing and computer science; VLSI, computer archi­tecture and digital signal processing)

Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1987, xv+261PPHardbound, ISBN 0-89838-250-5, $49.95

[Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris] The linguistic basis of text generation (Studies in natural language processing) Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press,

1987, x+222 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-521-32398-8, $39.50 [20%
[SRI International]Intelligence: The eye, the brain, and the computerReading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1987, xiv+331 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-201-12001-1

Fodor, Jerry A.

[The Graduate Center, City University of New York] Psychosemantics: The problem of meaning in the phi­losophy of mind (Explorations in cognitive science) Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press/Bradford Books,

1987, xiii+173 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-262-06106-6, $19.95
[Indiana University]The little LISPer (trade edition)Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1987, xiv+186 pp Paperback, ISBN 0-262-56038-0, $12.95
[Department of Philosophy, Lund University]Generalized quantifiers: Linguistic and logical ap­proaches (Studies in linguistics and philosophy 31)Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1987, vii+307 pp Hardbound, ISBN 1-55608-017-4, $74.00, £59.00, Dfl 158.-

An artificial intelligence approach to legal reasoning (Artificial intelligence and legal reasoning series) Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press/Bradford Books, Garfield, Jay L.

1987, xiii+225 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-262-07104-5, $22.50

[Hampshire College]

Modularity in knowledge representation and natural-language understanding Genesereth, Michael R. and Nilsson, Nils J.

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press/Bradford Books, 1987, xi+427 ppHardbound, ISBN 0-262-07105-3, $35.00

[Stanford University] Logical foundations of artificial intelligence Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1987, Ginsberg, Matthew L.

xviii+405 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-934613-31-1, $36.95

[Stanford University] Readings in non-monotonic reasoning Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1987,

481 ppPaperback, ISBN 0-934613-45-1, $26.95

[Department of Pure Mathematics, Victoria Univer­sity of Wellington] Logics of time and computation (CSLI lecture notes 7)

Center for the Study of Language and Information, Grimson, William Eric Leifur and Patil, Ramesh S. (editors) [MIT]

Stanford University, 1987, ix+131 pp Distributed by the University of Chicago Press Hardbound, ISBN 0-937073-11-3, $24.95; Paperback,ISBN 0-937073-12-1, $11.95AI in the 1980s and beyond: An MIT surveyCambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1987, x+374 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-262-07106-1, $24.95

[New York University] Computational linguistics: An introduction (Studies in natural language processing) Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, members]

1987, viii+193 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-521-32501-1, $39.50; Paperback,ISBN 0-521-31038-5, $14.95 [20% discount to ACL

[Faculty of Language and Culture, Osaka University]

Japanese phrase structure grammar: A unification-based approach (Studies in natural language and linguistic theory) Hand, D. J. and Everitt, Brian S.

Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1987, ix+239 ppHardbound, ISBN 1-55608-020-4, $64.50, £49.50, Dfl 135.-

[Biometrics Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London] The statistical consultant in action Cambridge University Press, 1987, xii+189 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-521-30717-1, $34.50

discount to ACL members]

Center for the Study of Language and Information,

[Behavioral and Brain Sciences] Categorial perception: The groundwork of cognition Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press,

1987, x+599 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-521-26758-7, $59.50

[Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy] Fundamentals in computer understanding: Speech

and Vision: An advanced course Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press,

1987, xii+276 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-521-30983-2, $39.50

[Wellesley College] Language and spatial cognition (Studies in natural language processing) Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press,

1987, x+208 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-521-26690-4, $34.50 [20%

[University of Toronto] Semantic interpretation and the resolution of ambigu­ity (Studies in natural language processing) Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press,

1987, xiv+263 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-521-32203-0, $39.50 [20%

[Department of Linguistics, Brandeis University] Consciousness and the computational mind (Explorations in cognitive science) Hardbound, ISBN 0-262-10037-1, $27.50

[Southern Illinois University] The body in the mind: The bodily basis of meaning,

imagination, and reason Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1987,

xxxviii+233 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-226-40317-3, $27.50

[Department of Experimental Psychology, Univer­sity of Nijmegen]

Natural language generation: New results in artificial intelligence, psychology and linguistics

(NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series E: Ap­plied Sciences, number 135)

Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers (distributed by Kluwer Academic Publishers), 1987, xiv+466 pp

Hardbound, ISBN 90-247-3558-0, $79.50, £53.50, Dfl 195.-

[Polytechnic University] User-oriented computer languages: Analysis and de­sign Kluzniak, Feliks and Szpakowicz, Stanislaw, with a contribution by Bien, Janusz S.

(The Macmillan database/data communications series) New York: Macmillan, 1987, xvi+208 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-02-949911-9, $34.95

[Warsaw University and University of Ottawa] Prolog for programmers (APIC studies in data processing 24) London: Academic Press, 1985, xii+306 pp Includes floppy disk with Toy Prolog for IBM PC Hardbound, ISBN 0-12-416520-6; Paperback, ISBN♦Langendoen, D. Terence and Postal, Paul M.

0-12-416521-4, $24.95, £14.95[Graduate Center, City University of New York, and IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights]The vastness of natural languagesOxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984, ix+189 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-631-13461-1; Paperback, ISBN 0-631-14756-X, £8.95

Prolog: A relational language and its applications Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc, 1987,

x+465 pp Paperbound, ISBN 0-13-730805-1
[Wayne State University]Mathematics of languageAmsterdam: John Benjamins, 1987, x+401 pp Hardbound, ISBN 1-55619-032-8 and 90-272-2049-2,$50.00, Dfl 125.-

Mason, Ian A.

[Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Sci­ence, University of Edinburgh] The semantics of destructive Lisp (CSLI lecture notes 5)

Stanford University, 1987, vii+282 pp Distributed by the University of Chicago Press Hardbound, ISBN 0-937073-05-9, $29.95; Paperback,ISBN 0-937073-06-7, $14.95

[Department of Psychology, Humbolt University and Department of Psychology, Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic] Knowledge aided information processing

PP

Center for the Study of Language and Information,

[Essays dedicated to Prof. Freidhart Klix] Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1987, xii+324 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-444-70276-8, Dfl 190.-

[Hatfield Polytechnic, U.K.] Grammar in the construction of texts (Open linguistics series)

London: Frances Pinter (Publishers), 1987, ix+155 pp [Distributed in the U.S. by Columbia University Press] fMyers, Terry; Brown, Keith; and McGonigle, Bren­dan (editors) [University of Edinburgh, University of Essex, and

Hardbound, ISBN 0-86187-627-X

University of Edinburgh] Reasoning and discourse processes (Cognitive science series) London: Academic Press, 1986, xii+295 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-12-512320, $69.00; Paperback, tPereira, Fernando C. N. and Shieber, Stuart M.

ISBN 0-12-512321-3, $29.95

[SRI International] Prolog and natural-language analysis (CSLI lecture notes 10)

Stanford University, 1987, viii+260 pp Distributed by the University of Chicago Press Hardbound, ISBN 0-937073-17-2, $28.95; Paperback, ISBN 0-937073-18-0, $13.95

[Salk Institute for Biological Research, San Diego] What the hands reveal about the brain

(The MIT Press series on issues in the biology of lan­guage and cognition)

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press/Bradford Books, 1987, xvii+236 ppHardbound, ISBN 0-262-16105-2, $25.00

[University of Western Ontario] The robot's dilemma: The frame problem in artificial

intelligence (Theoretical issues in cognitive science) Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corp, 1987, xi+156

Hardbound, ISBN 0-89391-371-5, $29.50

Pylyshyn, Zenon W. and Demopoulos, William (editors) [University of Western Ontario]

Meaning and cognitive structure: Issues in the com­putational theory of mind (Theoretical issues in cognitive science)

Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corp, 1986, xi+264 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-89391-372-3, $39.50

[New South Wales Institute of Technology] Applications of expert systems: Based on the proceed­ings of the second Australian conference Glasgow and Sydney: The Turing Institute Press in

association with Addison-Wesley, 1987, xvi+223 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-201-17449-9, $24.95

[Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and University of tSager, Naomi; Friedman, Carol; and Lyman, Margaret S.

Washington]The representation of (in)definiteness(Current studies in linguistics series 14) Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1987, xiv+344 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-262-18126-6, $35.00

[New York University] Medical language processing: Computer management

of narrative dataReading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1987, xiii+348 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-201-16810-3, $41.95

[Carnegie-Mellon University] A natural language interface for computer-aided de­sign

(The Kluwer international series in engineering and computer science; natural language processing and machine translation) tSavitch, Walter J.; Bach, Emmon; Marsh, William; and Safran-Naveh, Gila (editors) [University of California, San Diego; University of

Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1986, ix+188 ppHardbound, ISBN 0-89838-222-X, $38.95

Massachusetts, Amherst; Xerox Palo Alto Research

Center ; and University of Cincinnati]The formal complexity of natural language(Studies in linguistics and philosophy 33) Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1987, xviii+451 pp Hardbound, ISBN 1-55608-046-8, $69.00, £44.95,Dfl 145.-

[University of Arizona] Remnants of meaning

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press/Bradford Books,

1987, xx+303 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-262-19258-6, $27.50

[Georgetown University] Discourse markers (Studied in interactional sociolinguistics 5)

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press/Bradford Books, Schnupp, Peter and Bernhard, Lawrence W.

Cambridge University Press, 1987, x+364 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-521-30385-0, $49.50

[Interface GmbH and Soft & Hard Software] Productive Prolog Programming Prentice-Hall, 1987, xiv+296 pp Paperback, ISBN 0-13-725110-6 Shapiro, Stuart Charles (editor-in-chief) and Eckroth, David (managing editor) [State University of New York at Buffalo and John Wiley] Encyclopedia of artificial intelligence

New York: Wiley-Interscience/John Wiley, 1987,

xxi+1219 pp in two volumes Hardbound, ISBN 0-471-80748-6, $175.00

[Yale University] A semiotic theory of language (Advances in semiotics series) Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1987,

xv+352 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-253-30472-5, $57.50

[Department of Computer Science, Stanford Univer­sity] Reasoning about change: Time and causation from

the standpoint of artificial intelligence (The MIT Press series in artificial intelligence) Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1988, xvi+200 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-262-19269-1, $25.00 tSomers, Harold L.

[Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST] Valency and case in computational linguistics (Edinburgh information technology series 3) Edinburgh University Press, 1987, x+328 pp Distributed in North America by Columbia University

PressHardbound, ISBN 0-85224-518-1, $45.00

[University of Cambridge] Synonymy and semantic classification (Edinburgh information technology series 1) Edinburgh University Press, 1986, viii+285 pp Distributed in North America by Columbia University tStillings, Neil A.; Feinstein, Mark H.; Garfield, Jay L.; Rissland, Edwina L.; Rosenbaum, David A.; Weisler, Steven E.; and Baker-Ward, Lynne [Hampshire College and University of Massachu­setts, Amherst] Cognitive science: An introduction Traub, Joseph F.; Grosz, Barbara J.; Lampson, Butler W.; and Nilsson, Nils J.

Hardbound, ISBN 0-85224-517-3, £25.001987, xvii+533 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-262-19257-8, $25.00[Columbia University; Harvard University; Digital Equipment Corp; Stanford University]Annual review of computer science. Volume 2, 1987Palo Alto: Annual Reviews, Inc, 1987, vii+565 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-8243-3203-4, ISSN 8756-7016, $39.00

[University of Chicago] Death is the mother of beauty: Mind, metaphor, criticism

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1987,

xi+208 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-226-81721-0, $16.95

[Department of East Asian Languages and Litera­tures, University of Hawaii, Honolulu]

The fifth generation fallacy: Why Japan is betting its future on artificial intelligence

Oxford University Press, 1987, x+230 ppHardbound, ISBN 0-19-504-939-X

John F.; and Wilson, Walter G.

[IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and IBM Sys­tems Research Institute]

Knowledge systems and Prolog: A logical approach to expert systems and natural language processing

Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, corrected reprinting, March 1987, xii+475 pp Wise, Michael J.

Hardbound, ISBN 0-201-09044-9

[New South Wales Institute of Technology] Prolog Multiprocessors Sydney, NSW: Prentice-Hall Australia, 1986,

xii+168 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-13-730755-1

[Argonne National Laboratory] Automated reasoning: 33 basic research problems Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1988, xiii+319 pp Paperback, ISBN 0-13-054522-X, $12.00

[Tokyo Institute of Technology and Keio University] Object-oriented concurrent programming (MIT Press series in computer systems) Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1987, vii+282 pp Hardbound, ISBN 0-262-24026-2, $25.00