New Book on Corpus Linguistics and LanguageTechnology

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Dear Teachers, Colleagues and Friends,

Hope you are hale and hearty.

Kindly allow me to inform you that book on Corpus Linguistics and Language Technology with reference to Indian Languages is just published from the Mittal Publications, New Delhi – one of the best publishing houses of India with an International Standard.
 SUMMARY OF THE BOOK

Title                : Corpus Linguistics and Language Technology

Author              : Niladri Sekhar Dash

General area        : Corpus, Linguistics and Language Technology

Language            : English.

Pages               : 450+ (approximately)

Nature of  book  : Empirical database research, analysis and application.

FEATURES OF THE BOOK

The book is based on empirical analysis of a large corpus of written texts. It covers history of corpus-based language study, present scenario of corpus generation, types of corpus, issues of corpus generation, techniques for corpus processing, and the use of corpus in general linguistics and language technology. In essence, it focuses on the research into naturally occurring texts complemented with qualitative and functional interpretation of corpus-based findings. People working in the area of natural language processing, computational linguistics, language technology, phonology, morphology, lexicology, lexicography, descriptive linguistics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language teaching, semantics, dialectology, pragmatics, discourse, stylistics, and others will find this book useful for relevant information and analysis. The book will also fulfil the requirement of undergraduate and postgraduate students and research scholars dealing with !
 corpus
 linguistics and language technology in Indian languages.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Code chart for characters

Preface

Chapter 1: Language Corpus: A New Pasture

Chapter 2: Generation of A Written Corpus

Chapter 3: Processing A Written Corpus

Chapter 4: Analysis of Characters

Chapter 5: Analysis of Spelling Variation

Chapter 6: Statistical Analysis of Corpus

Chapter 7: Structure Analysis of Words

Chapter 8: Morphological Processing of Words

Chapter 9: Corpus in Linguistics Studies

Chapter 10: Corpus in Machine Translation

Appendix I

Appendix II

Appendix III

Bibliography

General Index

The book is now available in all big cities and towns in India and abroad. If you are interested to have a copy, please place your order (either by email or surface mail) to the following address:

MR. SOURABH MITTAL

MITTAL PUBLICATIONS

4594/9 DARYAGANJ

NEW DELHI – 110002, INDIA

PH: (011) 23250398, (011) 25351493, (011) 25351521

FAX - 25251521

E-MAIL: mittalp at ndf.vsnl.net.in

E-MAIL: mittalp at del6.vsnl.net.in

AND

MR. R.K. KHAN

BRANCH MANAGER

MITTAL PUBLICATIONS

B-12/7 PAYMANTY, ECTP-I

KOLKATA 700107
WEST BENGAL, INDIA
PH: (033) 24426466

FAX: (033) 28400525

EMAIL: mittalpcal at hotmail.com

Kindly help me to serve you with the best of my abilities. Thank you.

With best wishes and kind regards,

Sincerely,

Niladri Sekhar Dash

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