Covers the topic of word sense disambiguation (WSD) including: the major algorithms, techniques, performance measures, results, philosophical issues, and applications. This book provides an overview of the research across the field. It teaches how to build and evaluate systems, and talks about what performance to expect.
Yorick Wilks is a central figure in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. This title celebrates Wilks' career from the perspective of his peers in original chapters each of which analyses an aspect of his work and links it to current thinking in that area.
Using data from a newspaper corpus, this book offers an empirical study into the development of style in early mass media. It analyses how news discourse was shaped over time by external factors, such as the historical context, news production and technological innovation and as such both conformed to and deviated from generic conventions.
The first part of this book treats secret codes and their uses - cryptography. The second part deals with the process of covertly decrypting a secret code - cryptanalysis - where in particular advice on assessing methods is given. The 3rd edition of this standard book on cryptology has again been revised and extended in many details.
A study on minimalist syntax this book develops an empirical argument for a crash-proof computational system. This framework allows for novel analyses of quirky subjects in Icelandic and Spanish, indefinite SE in Spanish and different types of expletive constructions in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Icelandic.
Computer keystroke logging is a development in writing research methodology that allows a document's evolution to be logged and then replayed as if the document were being written for the first time. This book provides an introduction and overview of this dynamic area of research. It includes a discussion of applications for this field.
A formal computational theory of writing systems relating to psycholinguistic results.
A collection of new papers by leading researchers on natural language parsing.
A formal computational theory of writing systems relating to psycholinguistic results.
This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing, introducing the corpus-based approach to the study of language.
In this book, Yan Huang provides an overview of the major contemporary issues surrounding anaphora and gives a critical survey of the many and diverse contemporary approaches to it. Dr Huang's survey and analysis are based on a rich collection of data drawn from around 450 of the world's languages.
Provides a reference to one of the most active and productive fields in linguistics: computational linguistics. This work describes the major concepts, methods, and applications; provides an overview of the field; describes various tasks, techniques, and tools in natural language processing; and also surveys contemporary applications.
Evaluation is the linguistic expression of speaker/writer opinion, and has become the focus of linguistic analysis. This book presents a corpus-based account of evaluation: one hundred newspaper articles collated to form a 70,000 word comparable corpus, drawn from both tabloid and broadsheet media.
Part of the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Linguistics , this is a four-volume collection of research in the field.