Statistical Language Learning (Language, Speech, and Communication) (Language, Speech and Communication Series) - Softcover

Charniak, Eugene

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Synopsis

Eugene Charniak breaks new ground in artificial intelligence research by presenting statistical language processing from an artificial intelligence point of view in a text for researchers and scientists with a traditional computer science background. New, exacting empirical methods are needed to break the deadlock in such areas of artificial intelligence as robotics, knowledge representation, machine learning, machine translation, and natural language processing (NLP). It is time, Charniak observes, to switch paradigms. This text introduces statistical language processing techniques; word tagging, parsing with probabilistic context free grammars, grammar induction, syntactic disambiguation, semantic wordclasses, word-sense disambiguation; along with the underlying mathematics and chapter exercises. Charniak points out that as a method of attacking NLP problems, the statistical approach has several advantages. It is grounded in real text and therefore promises to produce usable results, and it offers an obvious way to approach learning: "one simply gathers statistics."

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About the Author

Eugene Charniak is Professor and Chairman, Department of Computer Science, Brown University.

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ISBN 10:  0262032163 ISBN 13:  9780262032162
Publisher: Bradford Books, 1994
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