Clark / Fox / Lappin The Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-44867-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 650 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics

This comprehensive reference work provides an overview of theconcepts, methodologies, and applications in computationallinguistics and natural language processing (NLP).
* Features contributions by the top researchers in the field,reflecting the work that is driving the discipline forward
* Includes an introduction to the major theoretical issues inthese fields, as well as the central engineering applications thatthe work has produced
* Presents the major developments in an accessible way,explaining the close connection between scientific understanding ofthe computational properties of natural language and the creationof effective language technologies
* Serves as an invaluable state-of-the-art reference source forcomputational linguists and software engineers developing NLPapplications in industrial research and development labs ofsoftware companies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clark, Alexander

Fox, Chris

Lappin, Shalom

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures ix
List of Tables xiv
Notes on Contributors xv
Preface xxiii
Introduction 1
Part I Formal Foundations 9
1 Formal Language Theory 11
SHULY WINTNER
2 Computational Complexity in Natural Language 43
IAN PRATT-HARTMANN
3 Statistical Language Modeling 74
CIPRIAN CHELBA
4 Theory of Parsing 105
MARK-JAN NEDERHOF AND GIORGIO SATTA
Part II Current Methods 131
5 Maximum Entropy Models 133
ROBERT MALOUF
6 Memory-Based Learning 154
WALTER DAELEMANS AND ANTAL VAN DEN BOSCH
7 Decision Trees 180
HELMUT SCHMID
8 Unsupervised Learning and Grammar Induction 197
ALEXANDER CLARK AND SHALOM LAPPIN
9 Artificial Neural Networks 221
JAMES B. HENDERSON
10 Linguistic Annotation 238
MARTHA PALMER AND NIANWEN XUE
11 Evaluation of NLP Systems 271
PHILIP RESNIK AND JIMMY LIN
Part III Domains of Application 297
12 Speech Recognition 299
STEVE RENALS AND THOMAS HAIN
13 Statistical Parsing 333
STEPHEN CLARK
14 Segmentation and Morphology 364
JOHN A. GOLDSMITH
15 Computational Semantics 394
CHRIS FOX
16 Computational Models of Dialogue 429
JONATHAN GINZBURG AND RAQUEL FERNÁNDEZ
17 Computational Psycholinguistics 482
MATTHEW W. CROCKER
Part IV Applications 515
18 Information Extraction 517
RALPH GRISHMAN
19 Machine Translation 531
ANDY WAY
20 Natural Language Generation 574
EHUD REITER
21 Discourse Processing 599
RUSLAN MITKOV
22 Question Answering 630
BONNIE WEBBER AND NICK WEBB
References 655
Author Index 742
Subject Index 763

Über Autor(innen)

Alexander Clark is a Lecturer in the Department ofComputer Science at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is theco-author, with Shalom Lappin, of Linguistic Nativism and thePoverty of the Stimulus (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
Chris Fox is a Reader in the School of Computer Scienceand Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex. He has alsotaught at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and King'sCollege London. He is co-author, with Shalom Lappin, ofFoundations of Intensional Semantics (Wiley-Blackwell,2005).
Shalom Lappin is Professor of ComputationalLinguistics at King's College London. He is editor of theHandbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory (1996); co-author,with Chris Fox, of Foundations of Intensional Semantics(2005); and, with Alexander Clark, co-author of LinguisticNativism and the Poverty of the Stimulus (2010), all publishedby Wiley-Blackwell.