Livre: Bender, Linguistic Fundamentals for NLP: 100 Essentials from Morphology and Syntax

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:12:43 -0400
From: Graeme Hirst <gh at cs.toronto.edu>
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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing: 100 Essentials
from Morphology and Syntax

by Emily M. Bender, University of Washington

Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies #20 (Morgan & Claypool
Publishers), 2013, 184 pages

Abstract

Many NLP tasks have at their core a subtask of extracting the
dependencies -- who did what to whom -- from natural language
sentences. This task can be understood as the inverse of the problem
solved in different ways by diverse human languages, namely, how to
indicate the relationship between different parts of a
sentence. Understanding how languages solve the problem can be extremely
useful in both feature design and error analysis in the application of
machine learning to NLP. Likewise, understanding cross-linguistic
variation can be important for the design of MT systems and other
multilingual applications. The purpose of this book is to present in a
succinct and accessible fashion information about the morphological and
syntactic structure of human languages that can be useful in creating
more linguistically sophisticated, more language-independent, and thus
more successful NLP systems.

Table of Contents: Acknowledgments / Introduction/motivation /
Morphology: Introduction / Morphophonology / Morphosyntax / Syntax:
Introduction / Parts of speech / Heads, arguments, and adjuncts /
Argument types and grammatical functions / Mismatches between syntactic
position and semantic roles / Resources / Bibliography / Author's
Biography / General Index / Index of Languages

http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00493ED1V01Y201303HLT020


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