Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies – serie
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Statistical Language Models for Information Retrieval
Häftad, 2008
377 kr
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As online information grows dramatically, search engines such as Google are playing a more and more important role in our lives. Critical to all search engines is the problem of designing an effective retrieval model that can rank documents accurately for a given query. This has been a central …
Dependency Parsing
Av Sandra Kübler, Ryan McDonald m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
377 kr
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Dependency-based methods for syntactic parsing have become increasingly popular in natural language processing in recent years. This book gives a thorough introduction to the methods that are most widely used today. After an introduction to dependency grammar and dependency parsing, followed by a …
Introduction to Linguistic Annotation and Text Analytics
Häftad, 2009
377 kr
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Linguistic annotation and text analytics are active areas of research and development, with academic conferences and industry events such as the Linguistic Annotation Workshops and the annual Text Analytics Summits. This book provides a basic introduction to both fields, and aims to show that good …
Introduction to Chinese Natural Language Processing
Av Kam-Fai Wong, Wenjie Li m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
377 kr
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This book introduces Chinese language-processing issues and techniques to readers who already have a basic background in natural language processing (NLP). Since the major difference between Chinese and Western languages is at the word level, the book primarily focuses on Chinese morphological …
Spoken Dialogue Systems
Av Kristina Jokinen, Michael McTear
Häftad, 2009
377 kr
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Considerable progress has been made in recent years in the development of dialogue systems that support robust and efficient human-machine interaction using spoken language. Spoken dialogue technology allows various interactive applications to be built and used for practical purposes, and research …
Semantic Role Labeling
Av Martha Palmer, Daniel Gildea m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
377 kr
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This book is aimed at providing an overview of several aspects of semantic role labeling. Chapter 1 begins with linguistic background on the definition of semantic roles and the controversies surrounding them. Chapter 2 describes how the theories have led to structured lexicons such as FrameNet, …
Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce
Av Jimmy Lin, Chris Dyer
Häftad, 2010
400 kr
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Our world is being revolutionized by data-driven methods: access to large amounts of data has generated new insights and opened exciting new opportunities in commerce, science, and computing applications. Processing the enormous quantities of data necessary for these advances requires large …
Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Av Jian-Yun Nie
Häftad, 2010
377 kr
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Search for information is no longer exclusively limited within the native language of the user, but is more and more extended to other languages. This gives rise to the problem of cross-language information retrieval (CLIR), whose goal is to find relevant information written in a different language …
Introduction to Arabic Natural Language Processing
Häftad, 2010
377 kr
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This book provides system developers and researchers in natural language processing and computational linguistics with the necessary background information for working with the Arabic language. The goal is to introduce Arabic linguistic phenomena and review the state-of-the-art in Arabic …
Computational Modeling of Human Language Acquisition
Häftad, 2010
377 kr
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Human language acquisition has been studied for centuries, but using computational modeling for such studies is a relatively recent trend. However, computational approaches to language learning have become increasingly popular, mainly due to advances in developing machine learning techniques, and …
Bitext Alignment
Häftad, 2011
400 kr
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This book provides an overview of various techniques for the alignment of bitexts. It describes general concepts and strategies that can be applied to map corresponding parts in parallel documents on various levels of granularity. Bitexts are valuable linguistic resources for many different …
Linguistic Structure Prediction
Häftad, 2011
568 kr
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A major part of natural language processing now depends on the use of text data to build linguistic analyzers. We consider statistical, computational approaches to modeling linguistic structure. We seek to unify across many approaches and many kinds of linguistic structures. Assuming a basic …
Discourse Processing
Häftad, 2011
400 kr
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Discourse Processing here is framed as marking up a text with structural descriptions on several levels, which can serve to support many language-processing or text-mining tasks. We first explore some ways of assigning structure on the document level: the logical document structure as determined by …
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Av Bing Liu
Häftad, 2012
400 kr
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Sentiment analysis and opinion mining is the field of study that analyzes people's opinions, sentiments, evaluations, attitudes, and emotions from written language. It is one of the most active research areas in natural language processing and is also widely studied in data mining, Web mining, and …
Natural Language Processing for Historical Texts
Häftad, 2012
433 kr
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More and more historical texts are becoming available in digital form. Digitization of paper documents is motivated by the aim of preserving cultural heritage and making it more accessible, both to laypeople and scholars. As digital images cannot be searched for text, digitization projects …
Computational Modeling of Narrative
Häftad, 2012
377 kr
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The field of narrative (or story) understanding and generation is one of the oldest in natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI), which is hardly surprising, since storytelling is such a fundamental and familiar intellectual and social activity. In recent years, the demands …
Semi-Supervised Learning and Domain Adaptation in Natural Language Processing
Häftad, 2013
288 kr
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This book introduces basic supervised learning algorithms applicable to natural language processing (NLP) and shows how the performance of these algorithms can often be improved by exploiting the marginal distribution of large amounts of unlabeled data. One reason for that is data sparsity, i.e., …
Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing
100 Essentials from Morphology and Syntax
Häftad, 2013
389 kr
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Many NLP tasks have at their core a subtask of extracting the dependencies—who did what to whom—from natural language sentences. This task can be understood as the inverse of the problem solved in different ways by diverse human languages, namely, how to indicate the relationship between different …
Recognizing Textual Entailment
Models and Applications
Häftad, 2013
456 kr
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In the last few years, a number of NLP researchers have developed and participated in the task of Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE). This task encapsulates Natural Language Understanding capabilities within a very simple interface: recognizing when the meaning of a text snippet is contained in …
Web Corpus Construction
Av Roland Schäfer, Felix Bildhauer
Häftad, 2013
377 kr
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The World Wide Web constitutes the largest existing source of texts written in a great variety of languages. A feasible and sound way of exploiting this data for linguistic research is to compile a static corpus for a given language. There are several adavantages of this approach: (i) Working with …
Automated Grammatical Error Detection for Language Learners, Second Edition
Av Claudia Leacock, Michael Gamon m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
400 kr
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It has been estimated that over a billion people are using or learning English as a second or foreign language, and the numbers are growing not only for English but for other languages as well. These language learners provide a burgeoning market for tools that help identify and correct learners' …
Ontology-Based Interpretation of Natural Language
Av Philipp Cimiano, Christina Unger m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
433 kr
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For humans, understanding a natural language sentence or discourse is so effortless that we hardly ever think about it. For machines, however, the task of interpreting natural language, especially grasping meaning beyond the literal content, has proven extremely difficult and requires a large …
Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing, Second Edition
Av Hang Li
Häftad, 2014
377 kr
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Learning to rank refers to machine learning techniques for training a model in a ranking task. Learning to rank is useful for many applications in information retrieval, natural language processing, and data mining. Intensive studies have been conducted on its problems recently, and significant …
Semantic Similarity from Natural Language and Ontology Analysis
Av Sébastien Harispe, Sylvie Ranwez m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
568 kr
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Artificial Intelligence federates numerous scientific fields in the aim of developing machines able to assist human operators performing complex treatments---most of which demand high cognitive skills (e.g. learning or decision processes). Central to this quest is to give machines the ability to …
Automatic Detection of Verbal Deception
Av Eileen Fitzpatrick, Joan Bachenko m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
377 kr
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The attempt to spot deception through its correlates in human behavior has a long history. Until recently, these efforts have concentrated on identifying individual "cues" that might occur with deception. However, with the advent of computational means to analyze language and other human behavior, …
Grammatical Inference for Computational Linguistics
Av Jeffrey Heinz, Colin de la Higuera m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
400 kr
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This book provides a thorough introduction to the subfield of theoretical computer science known as grammatical inference from a computational linguistic perspective. Grammatical inference provides principled methods for developing computationally sound algorithms that learn structure from strings …
Metaphor
A Computational Perspective
Av Tony Veale, Ekaterina Shutova m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
512 kr
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The literary imagination may take flight on the wings of metaphor, but hard-headed scientists are just as likely as doe-eyed poets to reach for a metaphor when the descriptive need arises. Metaphor is a pervasive aspect of every genre of text and every register of speech, and is as useful for …
Linked Lexical Knowledge Bases
Foundations and Applications
Av Iryna Gurevych, Judith Eckle-Kohler m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
456 kr
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This book conveys the fundamentals of Linked Lexical Knowledge Bases (LLKB) and sheds light on their different aspects from various perspectives, focusing on their construction and use in natural language processing (NLP). It characterizes a wide range of both expert-based and collaboratively …
Domain-Sensitive Temporal Tagging
Av Jannik Strötgen, Michael Gertz
Häftad, 2016
512 kr
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This book covers the topic of temporal tagging, the detection of temporal expressions and the normalization of their semantics to some standard format. It places a special focus on the challenges and opportunities of domain-sensitive temporal tagging. After providing background knowledge on the …
Syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation
Av Philip Williams, Rico Sennrich m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
568 kr
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This unique book provides a comprehensive introduction to the most popular syntax-based statistical machine translation models, filling a gap in the current literature for researchers and developers in human language technologies. While phrase-based models have previously dominated the field, …
