Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing
Author : Christopher Manning
Publisher : MIT Press
Release Date : 1999-05-28
ISBN 10 : 0262133601
Pages : 722 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (621 downloads)
Download Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing PDF Full Free by Christopher Manning and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999-05-28 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statistical approaches to processing natural language text have become dominant in recent years. This foundational text is the first comprehensive introduction to statistical natural language processing (NLP) to appear. The book contains all the theory and algorithms needed for building NLP tools. It provides broad but rigorous coverage of mathematical and linguistic foundations, as well as detailed discussion of statistical methods, allowing students and researchers to construct their own implementations. The book covers collocation finding, word sense disambiguation, probabilistic parsing, information retrieval, and other applications.