The Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
1. Edition September 2012
800 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
The Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the concepts, methodologies, and applications being undertaken today in computational linguistics and natural language processing. It presents the major developments in this dynamic field in an accessible way that explains the close connection between scientific understanding of the computational properties of natural language and the creation of effective language technologies. It will serve as an invaluable state-of-the-art reference source for computational linguists and software engineers, as well as for graduate students and researchers working within computational linguistics and related fields.
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
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
"Altogether, this Handbookcovers a wide variety of topics in NLP and CL and, is of particular use to researchers in the field of MT. On a more general note, graduate students or novice researchers can utilise this book as a comprehensive starting point for their area of interest within NLP or CL ... All in all, this is very well compiled book, which effectively balances the width and depth of theories and applications in two very diverse yet closely related fields of language research." (Machine Translation, 18 March 2012)
Chris Fox is a Reader in the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex. He has also taught at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and King's College London. He is co-author, with Shalom Lappin, of Foundations of Intensional Semantics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005).
Shalom Lappin is Professor of Computational Linguistics at King's College London. He is editor of the Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory (1996); co-author, with Chris Fox, of Foundations of Intensional Semantics (2005); and, with Alexander Clark, co-author of Linguistic Nativism and the Poverty of the Stimulus (2010), all published by Wiley-Blackwell.
