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Language, Proof and Logic (second edition) Dave Barker-Plummer, Jon Barwise, and John Etchemendy, in collaboration with Albert Liu, Michael Murray, and Emma Pease (Stanford University) Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2011, xiv+606 pp with CD-ROM (for Macintosh, Linux, and Windows) and 56-page software manual; paperbound, ISBN 978-1-57586-632-1, $70.00, £45.00
†Interactive Multi-Modal Question-Answering Antal van den Bosch* and Gosse Bouma‡ (editors) (*Tilburg University and ‡University of Groningen) Springer (Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing series, edited by Eduard Hovy), 2011, xii+279 pp; hardbound, ISBN 978-3-642-17524-4, $124.00; e-book, ISBN 978-3-642-17525-1; paperbound $24.95 or €24.95 to members of subscribing institutions
Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man Mark Changizi (2AI) Dallas: BenBella Books, 2011, 236 pp; paperbound, ISBN 978-19356-1853-9, $16.95
Quantifiers, Propositions, and Identity: Admissible Semantics for Quantified Modal and Substructural Logics Robert Goldblatt (Victoria University of Wellington) Cambridge University Press (Lecture notes in logic, volume 38), 2011, xiii+268 pp; hardbound, ISBN 978-1-107-01052-9, $75.00
The Tarskian Turn: Deflationism and Axiomatic Truth Leon Horsten (University of Bristol) The MIT Press, 2011, xii+165 pp; hardbound, ISBN 978-0-262-01586-8, $35.00, £24.95
Understanding Sponsored Search: Core Elements of Keyword Advertising Jim Jansen (Pennsylvania State University) Cambridge University Press, 2011, xix+277 pp; hardbound, ISBN 978-1-107-01197-7, $99.00; paperbound, ISBN 978-1-107-62836-6, $37.99
Discourse.cpp O.S. le Si (edited by Aurélie Herbelot) [University of Cambridge] Berlin: Peer Press, 2011, 55 pp; paperbound, ISBN 978-3-00-33516-7, €9.00, or free online at http://peerpress.de/discoursecpp.pdf
Linguistic Structure Prediction Noah A. Smith (Carnegie Mellon University) Morgan & Claypool (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, edited by Graeme Hirst, volume 12), 2011, xix+248 pp; paperbound, ISBN 978-1-60845-405-1, $40.00; ebook, ISBN 978-1-60845-406-8, $30.00 or by subscription
Optimization for Machine Learning Suvit Sra,* Sebastian Nowozin,‡ and Stephen J.Wright¶ (editors) (*Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, ‡Microsoft Research, and ¶University of Wisconsin, Madison) The MIT Press (Neural information precessing series), 2012, xii+494 pp; hardbound, ISBN 978-0-262-01646-9, $50.00, £34.95
Bitext Alignment Jörg Tiedemann (Uppsala University) Morgan & Claypool (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, edited by Graeme Hirst, volume 14), 2011, xi+153 pp; paperbound, ISBN 978-1-60845-510-2, $40.00; ebook, ISBN 978-1-60845-511-9, $30.00 or by subscription
Referring Expressions in English and Japanese: Patterns of Use in Dialogue Processing Etsuko Yoshida (Mie University) John Benjamins Publishing Company (Pragmatics and beyond, new series, volume 208), 2011, xviii+206 pp; hardbound, ISBN 978-90-272-5612-6, €90.00, $135.00; e-book ISBN 978-90-272-8665-9, €90.00, $135.00