Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora

Armstrong, Susan; Church, Kenneth Ward

ISBN 10: 0792360559 / ISBN 13: 9780792360551

Published by Springer, 1999

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pp. 328.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora
• Publisher: Springer
• 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.