Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora

. Ed(s): Armstrong, Susan; Church, Kenneth W.; Isabelle, Pierre; Manzi, Sandra; Tzoukermann, Evelyne; Yarowsky, David (Johns Hopkins University, Balt

ISBN 10: 0792360559 / ISBN 13: 9780792360551

Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999

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Intended for researchers who want to keep abreast of developments in corpus-based natural language processing. This work captures the essence of a series of successful workshops. It contains papers that cover a range of research topics in this field including part-of-speech tagging, word sense disambiguation, parsing on real-life texts, and more. Editor(s): Armstrong, Susan; Church, Kenneth W.; Isabelle, Pierre; Manzi, Sandra; Tzoukermann, Evelyne; Yarowsky, David (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA). Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF; UYQL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 636. . 1999. Hardback. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792360559
• ISBN 13: 9780792360551
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.