Table of Contents

Chap. 1.- Introduction: How to Build a Talking Robot.- Part I.- Five Mysteries of Natural Language Communication.- Chap. 2.-  Mystery Number One: Using External Surfaces.-  Chap. 3.- Mystery Number Two: Cycle of Natural Language Communication.- Chap. 4.- Mystery Number Three: Memory Structure.- Chap. 5.- Mystery Number Four: Autonomous Control.- Chap. 6.- Mystery Number Five: Learning.- Part II.- The Coding of Content.- Chap. 7.- Semantic Relations of Structure.- Chap. 8.- Simultaneous Amalgamation of Content.- Chap. 9.- Graph-Theoretical Considerations.- Chap. 10.- Computing Perspective in Dialogue.- Chap. 11.- Computing Perspective in Text.- Chap. 12.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.

About the Author

Prof. Dr. Hausser has been Professor for Linguistische Informatik at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg since 1989; he is also director of the Laboratory of Computational Linguistics Uni Erlangen (CLUE). Among his publications are the books "Foundations of Computational Linguistics -- Human–Computer Communication in Natural Language", 2001, ISBN 978-3-540-42417-8 and "A Computational Model of Natural Language Communication", 2006, ISBN 978-3-540-35476-5.