Language, Culture, Computation: Computational Linguistics and Linguistics

1. Front Matter

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2. Natural Language Processing

   1. Natural Language Processing Challenges, Achievements and Problems

      • Yaacov Choueka

      Pages 1-13

   2. Concepts and Grammar: Thoughts about an Integrated System

      • Klaus M. Schmidt

      Pages 14-35

   3. Identifying the Correct Root of an Ambiguous Hebrew Word

      • Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Ofir Tzvi Erlich

      Pages 36-53

   4. Matching Phrases for Arabic-to-English Example-Based Translation System

      • Kfir Bar, Yaacov Choueka, Nachum Dershowitz

      Pages 54-63

   5. Arabic Multiword Expressions

      • Kfir Bar, Mona Diab, Abdelati Hawwari

      Pages 64-81

   6. Information Retrieval and Question Answering for Assisting Readers of the Late Antique to Medieval Corpora of the Aggadic Midrash

      • Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Ephraim Nissan

      Pages 82-102

3. Representing the Lexicon

   1. The Lexicon and Ontologies: Tools

      1. Lexicons, Terminologies, Ontologies: Reflections from Experiences in Resource Construction

         • Nicoletta Calzolari, Monica Monachini, Valeria Quochi, Claudia Soria, Antonio Toral

         Pages 103-121

      2. Multilingual Lexis, Semantics, and Onomasiology. Terminological Database Modelling, by Using the CuProS Metarepresentation Language: An XML-Compatible XML-Precursor Enabling Flexible Nested-Relation Structures

         • Ephraim Nissan

         Pages 122-173

   2. The Lexicon and Ontologies: Historical Linguistics

      1. Which Acceptation? Ontologies for Historical Linguistics

         • Ephraim Nissan

         Pages 174-206

      2. Etymothesis, Fallacy, and Ontologies: An Illustration from Phytonymy

         • Ephraim Nissan

         Pages 207-364

4. Neologisation

   1. The Lexicon, Word Formation, and Neologisms

      1. Knowledge Engineering for Word-Formation: Generating and Evaluating Candidate Neologisms

         • Ephraim Nissan

         Pages 365-434

      2. Terminology and Referential versus Connotated Neologisation, I: A Prolegomenon

         • Ephraim Nissan

         Pages 435-482

      3. Terminology and Referential versus Connotated Neologisation, II: Illustration from a Few Domains

         • Ephraim Nissan

         Pages 483-536

   2. Zoonymy, Neologised or Nativised

      1. One Zoonym, Two Parents: Mendele’s Phono-Semantic Matching of Animal Terms, and Later Developments of Lexical Confluence in Modern Hebrew Zoonymy

         • Ephraim Nissan, Ghil‘ad Zuckermann

         Pages 537-561

      2. Common Names for Mesozoic and Cenozoic Mammals: In Zoologists’ Israeli Hebrew, and in English

         • Ephraim Nissan

         Pages 562-592

      3. Nativised, Playfully Aetiologised Literary Zoonyms, I: The Squirrel Cuckoo. Rich Onomasiology, Semantic Calques, and Phono-Morphological Matching, Encapsulated into a Stylemically Constrained Narration

         • Ephraim Nissan

         Pages 593-611

      4. Nativised, Playfully Aetiologised Literary Zoonyms, II: The Peccary. Phono-Semantic Matching of the Signifiers, and Goal-Driven Narrative Trajectories through Adam, Balaam, John Moore-Brabazon, and Rosenzweig’s Columbus, Whose Own Standard Associated Narratives Contribute to Narrative Subgoal Achievement

         • Ephraim Nissan

         Pages 612-641

      5. Nativised, Playfully Aetiologised Literary Zoonyms, III: Abdim’s Stork. Substituted Eponym, Dense Cultural Rewiring, Ethics

         • Ephraim Nissan

         Pages 642-779

      6. GALLURA and the Challenge of Combining Phono-Semantic Matching with Story-Generation: Zoonomastic Illustration

         • Ephraim Nissan, Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner

         Pages 780-866

This Festschrift volume is published in Honor of Yaacov Choueka on the occasion of this 75th birthday. The present three-volumes liber amicorum, several years in gestation, honours this outstanding Israeli computer scientist and is dedicated to him and to his scientific endeavours. Yaacov's research has had a major impact not only within the walls of academia, but also in the daily life of lay users of such technology that originated from his research. An especially amazing aspect of the temporal span of his scholarly work is that half a century after his influential research from the early 1960s, a project in which he is currently involved is proving to be a sensation, as will become apparent from what follows. Yaacov Choueka began his research career in the theory of computer science, dealing with basic questions regarding the relation between mathematical logic and automata theory. From formal languages, Yaacov moved to natural languages. He was a founder of natural-language processing in Israel, developing numerous tools for Hebrew. He is best known for his primary role, together with Aviezri Fraenkel, in the development of the Responsa Project, one of the earliest fulltext retrieval systems in the world. More recently, he has headed the Friedberg Genizah Project, which is bringing the treasures of the Cairo Genizah into the Digital Age. This third part of the three-volume set covers a range of topics related to language, ranging from linguistics to applications of computation to language, using linguistic tools. The papers are grouped in topical sections on: natural language processing; representing the lexicon; and neologisation.

• artificial intelligence
• formal methods
• knowledge engineering
• natural language processing
• ontologies

• School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

  Nachum Dershowitz

• Goldsmiths College, Department of Computing, University of London, London, UK

  Ephraim Nissan

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