Speech and Language Processing An Introduction to Natural Language Processing Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition 1st Edition by Daniel Saul Jurafsky, James Martin 0130950696 9780130950697

Authors:Dan Jurafsky; Jurafsky, Daniel Saul Jurafsky; James H. Martin; Andrew Kehler; Nigel Ward; Keith Vender Autor Linden , Series:Artificial Intelligence [23] , Tags:Language Arts & Disciplines; Linguistics; General , Author sort:Jurafsky, Dan & Jurafsky, Daniel Saul Jurafsky & Martin, James H. & Kehler, Andrew & Ward, Nigel & Linden, Keith Vender Autor , Ids:Google; 9780130950697 , Languages:Languages:eng , Published:Published:May 2000 , Publisher:Prentice Hall , Comments:Comments:This book takes an empirical approach to language processing, based on applying statistical and other machine-learning algorithms to large corporations.* Each chapter is built around one or more worked examples demonstrating the main idea of the chapter. * Uses worked examples to illustrate the relative strengths and weaknesses of various approaches. * Methodology boxes – Included in each chapter. * Introduces important methodological tools such as evaluation, wizard of oz techniques, etc. * Problem sets – Included in each chapter. * Integration of speech and text processing – Merges speech processing and natural language processing fields. * Empiricist/statistical/machine learning approaches to language processing – Covers all of the new statistical approaches, while still completely covering the earlier more structured and rule-based methods. * Includes modern rigorous evaluation metrics. * Unified and comprehensive coverage of the field – Covers the fundamental algorithms of various fields, whether originally proposed for spoken or written language. * Shows students how the same algorithm can be used for speech recognition and word-sense disambiguation. * Emphasis on Web and oth