| Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora 1999 Edition Contributor(s): Armstrong, S. (Editor), Church, Kenneth W. (Editor), Isabelle, Pierre (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9048153492 ISBN-13: 9789048153497 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Computers | Intelligence (ai) & Semantics - Technology & Engineering | Electrical |
| Dewey: 410.285 |
| Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.00 lbs) 305 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: ABOUT THIS BOOK This book is intended for researchers who want to keep abreast of cur- rent developments in corpus-based natural language processing. It is not meant as an introduction to this field; for readers who need one, several entry-level texts are available, including those of (Church and Mercer, 1993; Charniak, 1993; Jelinek, 1997). This book captures the essence of a series of highly successful work- shops held in the last few years. The response in 1993 to the initial Workshop on Very Large Corpora (Columbus, Ohio) was so enthusias- tic that we were encouraged to make it an annual event. The following year, we staged the Second Workshop on Very Large Corpora in Ky- oto. As a way of managing these annual workshops, we then decided to register a special interest group called SIGDAT with the Association for Computational Linguistics. The demand for international forums on corpus-based NLP has been expanding so rapidly that in 1995 SIGDAT was led to organize not only the Third Workshop on Very Large Corpora (Cambridge, Mass. ) but also a complementary workshop entitled From Texts to Tags (Dublin). Obviously, the success of these workshops was in some measure a re- flection of the growing popularity of corpus-based methods in the NLP community. But first and foremost, it was due to the fact that the work- shops attracted so many high-quality papers. |