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Natural Language Processing with Python
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Natural Language Processing with Python

by Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, Edward Loper
June 2009
Beginner to intermediate
504 pages
16h 27m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Summary

  • Fundamental data types, present in most corpora, are annotated texts and lexicons. Texts have a temporal structure, whereas lexicons have a record structure.

  • The life cycle of a corpus includes data collection, annotation, quality control, and publication. The life cycle continues after publication as the corpus is modified and enriched during the course of research.

  • Corpus development involves a balance between capturing a representative sample of language usage, and capturing enough material from any one source or genre to be useful; multiplying out the dimensions of variability is usually not feasible because of resource limitations.

  • XML provides a useful format for the storage and interchange of linguistic data, but provides no shortcuts for solving pervasive data modeling problems.

  • Toolbox format is widely used in language documentation projects; we can write programs to support the curation of Toolbox files, and to convert them to XML.

  • The Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) provides an infrastructure for documenting and discovering language resources.

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