[Corpora-List] (New Books) Web Corpus Construction, and Recognizing Textual Entailment: Models and Applications

Wed Jul 24 23:13:21 UTC 2013

I am pleased to announce the latest titles in Morgan & Claypool’s series on
Human Language Technologies: 

Web Corpus Construction

Roland Schafer and Felix Bildhauer, Freie Universitat of Berlin 

Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies

Paperback: 9781608459834 / $40.00 / £24.99

eBook ISBN: 9781608459841 

July 2013, 145 pages

http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00508ED1V01Y201305HLT022 

The World Wide Web constitutes the largest existing source of texts written
in a great variety of languages. A feasible and sound way of exploiting this
data for linguistic research is to compile a static corpus for a given
language. There are several advantages of this approach: (i) Working with
such corpora obviates the problems encountered when using Internet search
engines in quantitative linguistic research (such as non-transparent ranking
algorithms). (ii) Creating a corpus from web data is virtually free. (iii)
The size of corpora compiled from the WWW may exceed by several orders of
magnitudes the size of language resources offered elsewhere. (iv) The data
is locally available to the user, and it can be linguistically
post-processed and queried with the tools preferred by her/him. This book
addresses the main practical tasks in the creation of web corpora up to
giga-token size.  Read More
<http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00508ED1V01Y201305HLT022> 

Recognizing Textual Entailment: Models and Applications

Ido Dagan, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Mark Sammons, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome “Tor Vergata” Italy 

Paperback: 9781598298345 / $50.00 / £29.99

eBook ISBN: 9781598298352

July 2013, 220 pages

http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00509ED1V01Y201305HLT023 

In the last few years, a number of NLP researchers have developed and
participated in the task of Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE). This task
encapsulates Natural Language Understanding capabilities within a very
simple interface: recognizing when the meaning of a text snippet is
contained in the meaning of a second piece of text. This simple abstraction
of an exceedingly complex problem has broad appeal partly because it can be
conceived also as a component in other NLP applications, from Machine
Translation to Semantic Search to Information Extraction. It also avoids
commitment to any specific meaning representation and reasoning framework,
broadening its appeal within the research community. This level of
abstraction also facilitates evaluation, a crucial component of any
technological advancement program. Read More
<http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00509ED1V01Y201305HLT023> 

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Thank you and best regards,
David Schlangen

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