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The handbook of computational linguistics and natural language processing /

The handbook of computational linguistics and natural language processing / edited by Alexander Clark, Chris Fox and Shalom Lappin. - Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden MA : Wiley-Blackwell, c2013. - xxii, 775 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. - Blackwell handbooks in linguistics .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formal foundations. Formal language theory / Shuly Wintner -- Computational complexity in natural language / Ian Pratt-Hartmann -- Statistical language modeling / Ciprian Chelba -- Theory of parsing / Mark-Jan Nederhof and Giorgio Satta -- Current methods. Maximum entropy models / Robert Malouf -- Memory-based learning / Walter Daelemans and Antal van den Bosch -- Decision trees / Helmut Schmid -- Unsupervised learning and grammar induction / Alexander Clark and Shalom Lappin -- Artificial neural networks / James B. Henderson -- Linguistic annotation / Martha Palmer and Nianwen Xue -- Evaluation of NLP systems / Philip Resnik and Jimmy Lin -- Domains of application. Speech recognition / Steve Renals and Thomas Hain -- Statistical parsing / Stephen Clark -- Segmentation and morphology / John A. Goldsmith -- Computational semantics / Chris Fox -- Computational models of dialogue / Jonathan Ginzburg and Raquel Fernández -- Computational psycholinguistics / Matthew W. Crocker -- Applications. Information extraction / Ralph Grishman -- Machine translation / Andy Way -- 20. Natural language generation / Ehud Reiter -- Discourse processing / Ruslan Mitkov -- Question answering / Bonnie Webber and Nick Webb.

This comprehensive reference work provides an overview of the concepts, methodologies, and applications in computational linguistics 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 in these fields, as well as the central engineering applications that the work has produced
Presents the major developments in an accessible way, explaining the close connection between scientific understanding of the computational properties of natural language and the creation of effective language technologies
Serves as an invaluable state-of-the-art reference source for computational linguists and software engineers developing NLP applications in industrial research and development labs of software companies



9781118347188 9781405155816 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1405155817 (hardcover : alk. paper)


Natural language processing (Computer science)
Natural language generation (Computer science)
Computational linguistics

QA76.9 / .H36 2013
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