Introduction to linguistic annotation and text analytics /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) :
Morgan & Claypool Publishers,
[2009]
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| Series: | Synthesis lectures on human language technologies (Online).
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Abstract: | Linguistic annotation and text analytics are active areas of research and development, with academic conferences and industry events such as the Linguistic Annotation Workshops and the annual Text Analytics Summits. This book provides a basic introduction to both fields, and aims to show that good linguistic annotations are the essential foundation for good text analytics. After briefly reviewing the basics of XML,with practical exercises illustrating in-line and stand-off annotations, a chapter is devoted to explaining the different levels of linguistic annotations. The reader is encouraged to create example annotations using the WordFreak linguistic annotation tool. The next chapter shows how annotations can be created automatically using statistical NLP tools, and compares two sets of tools, the OpenNLP and Stanford NLP tools. The second half of the book describes different annotation formats and gives practical examples of how to interchange annotations between different formats using XSLT transformations. The two main text analytics architectures,GATE and UIMA, are then described and compared, with practical exercises showing how to configure and customize them. The final chapter is an introduction to text analytics, describing the main applications and functions including named entity recognition, coreference resolution and information extraction, with practical examples using both open source and commercial tools. Copies of the example files, scripts, and stylesheets used in the book are available from the companion website, located at http://sites.morganclaypool.com/wilcock. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science. Series from website. Title from PDF title page (viewed on June 4, 2009). |
| Physical Description: | 1 electronic text (x, 149 pages : illustrations) : digital file. Also available in print. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Adobe Acrobat reader. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-149). |
| ISBN: | 1598297392 (electronic bk.) 9781598297393 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 1947-4059 ; |
| DOI: | 10.2200/S00194ED1V01Y200905HLT003 |