Linguistic fundamentals for natural language processing : 100 essentials from morphology and syntax /
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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,
[2013]
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| Series: | Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.
Synthesis lectures on human language technologies ; # 20. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Abstract: | Many NLP tasks have at their core a subtask of extracting the dependencies--who did what to whom--from natural language sentences. This task can be understood as the inverse of the problem solved in different ways by diverse human languages, namely, how to indicate the relationship between different parts of a sentence. Understanding how languages solve the problem can be extremely useful in both feature design and error analysis in the application of machine learning to NLP. Likewise, understanding cross-linguistic variation can be important for the design of MT systems and other multilingual applications. The purpose of this book is to present in a succinct and accessible fashion information about the morphological and syntactic structure of human languages that can be useful in creating more linguistically sophisticated, more language-independent, and thus more successful NLP systems. |
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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 July 19, 2013). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 electronic text (xvii, 166 pages)) : illustrations, digital file. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-151) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1627050124 (electronic bk.) 9781627050128 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 1947-4059 ; |
| DOI: | 10.2200/S00493ED1V01Y201303HLT020 |