[Corpora-List] New Book: Wong et al: Chinese Natural Language Processing

[Graeme Hirst]

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

Introduction to Chinese Natural Language Processing

Kam-Fai Wong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Wenji Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Ruifeng Xu (City University of Hong Kong)
Zheng-sheng Zhang (San Diego State University)

Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies #4 (Morgan &  
Claypool Publishers), 2009, 148 pages

This book introduces Chinese language-processing issues and techniques  
to readers who already have a basic background in natural language  
processing (NLP). Since the major difference between Chinese and  
Western languages is at the word level, the book primarily focuses on  
Chinese morphological analysis and introduces the concept, structure,  
and interword semantics of Chinese words.

The following topics are covered: a general introduction to Chinese  
NLP; Chinese characters, morphemes, and words and the characteristics  
of Chinese words that have to be considered in NLP applications;  
Chinese word segmentation; unknown word detection; word meaning and  
Chinese linguistic resources; interword semantics based on word  
collocation and NLP techniques for collocation extraction.

Table of Contents: Introduction / Words in Chinese / Challenges in  
Chinese Morphological Processing / Chinese Word Segmentation / Unknown  
Word Identification / Word Meaning / Chinese Collocations / Automatic  
Chinese Collocation Extraction / Appendix / References / Author  
Biographies

http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00211ED1V01Y200909HLT004

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