Evaluating natural language processing systems

Karen Sparck Jones

ISBN 10: 3540613099 / ISBN 13: 9783540613091

Published by Springer, 1995

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Beschriftungen / Markierungen; Aus Bibliothek aussortiert; Leichte Risse. This comprehensive state-of-the-art book is the first devoted to the important and timely issue of evaluating NLP systems. It addresses the whole area of NLP system evaluation, including aims and scope, problems and methodology.The authors provide a wide-ranging and careful analysis of evaluation concepts, reinforced with extensive illustrations; they relate systems to their environments and develop a framework for proper evaluation. The discussion of principles is completed by a detailed review of practice and strategies in the field, covering both systems for specific tasks, like translation, and core language processors. The methodology lessons drawn from the analysis and review are applied in a series of example cases. A comprehensive bibliography, a subject index, and term glossary are included.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Evaluating natural language processing systems
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540613099
• ISBN 13: 9783540613091
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Fair

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This comprehensive state-of-the-art book is the first devoted to the important and timely issue of evaluating NLP systems. It addresses the whole area of NLP system evaluation, including aims and scope, problems and methodology.
The authors provide a wide-ranging and careful analysis of evaluation concepts, reinforced with extensive illustrations; they relate systems to their environments and develop a framework for proper evaluation. The discussion of principles is completed by a detailed review of practice and strategies in the field, covering both systems for specific tasks, like translation, and core language processors. The methodology lessons drawn from the analysis and review are applied in a series of example cases. A comprehensive bibliography, a subject index, and term glossary are included.