May 2012
Beginner to intermediate
640 pages
21h 52m
English
book
Multilingual Natural Language Processing Applications: From Theory to Practice
by Daniel Bikel, Imed Zitouni
Overview
Multilingual Natural Language Processing Applications is the first comprehensive single-source guide to building robust and accurate multilingual NLP systems. Edited by two leading experts, it integrates cutting-edge advances with practical solutions drawn from extensive field experience.
Part I introduces the core concepts and theoretical foundations of modern multilingual natural language processing, presenting today’s best practices for understanding word and document structure, analyzing syntax, modeling language, recognizing entailment, and detecting redundancy.
Part II thoroughly addresses the practical considerations associated with building real-world applications, including information extraction, machine translation, information retrieval/search, summarization, question answering, distillation, processing pipelines, and more.
This book contains important new contributions from leading researchers at IBM, Google, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, BBN, CMU, University of Edinburgh, University of Washington, University of North Texas, and others.
Coverage includes
Core NLP problems, and today’s best algorithms for attacking them
Processing the diverse morphologies present in the world’s languages
Uncovering syntactical structure, parsing semantics, using semantic role labeling, and scoring grammaticality
Recognizing inferences, subjectivity, and opinion polarity
Managing key algorithmic and design tradeoffs in real-world applications
Extracting information via mention detection, coreference resolution, and events
Building large-scale systems for machine translation, information retrieval, and summarization
Answering complex questions through distillation and other advanced techniques
Creating dialog systems that leverage advances in speech recognition, synthesis, and dialog management
Constructing common infrastructure for multiple multilingual text processing applications
This book will be invaluable for all engineers, software developers, researchers, and graduate students who want to process large quantities of text in multiple languages, in any environment: government, corporate, or academic.
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