Multilingual Natural Language Processing Applications: From Theory to Practice

Preface

Almost everyone on the planet, it seems, has been touched in some way by advances in information technology and the proliferation of the Internet. Recently, multimedia information sources have become increasingly popular. Nevertheless, the sheer volume of raw natural language text keeps increasing, and this text is being generated in all the major languages on Earth. For example, the English Wikipedia reports that 101 language-specific Wikipedias exist with at least 10,000 articles each. There is therefore a pressing need for countries, companies, and individuals to analyze this massive amount of text, translate it, and synthesize and distill it.

Previously, to build robust and accurate multilingual natural language processing (NLP) applications, ...