“This stellar collection brings together leading international researchers in theoretical and computational linguistics to offer their insights on morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and inference. Drawing on a great diversity of modern formal approaches to these problems, it will be read and referenced for years to come.”

Mark Steedman, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

“The papers collected in this volume—written by a veritable who's who of major figures in theoretical and computational linguistics—cover the topics that Lauri Karttunen has made important contributions to in the past half century: discourse referents; implicatives; questions; finite-state transducers and their application to morphology; and ‘natural’ reasoning. It is a wonderful tribute to Lauri's oeuvre that I am very much looking forward to owning and reading.”

Hinrich Schütze, Center for Information and Language Processing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

“This enjoyable collection of studies on linguistic structure and meaning and their computational processing is inspired by Lauri Karttunen, and the papers reflect the wide-ranging nature of his work, from his seminal insights into meaning and grammatical structure to his computational innovations in finite-state models and applying rich semantic models to natural language understanding.”

Dan Jurafsky, Stanford University