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Speech and language processing : an introduction to natural language processing, computational linguistics, and speech recognition

This book takes an empirical approach to language processing, based on applying statistical and other machine-learning algorithms to large corpora. Methodology boxes are included in each chapter. Each chapter is built around one or more worked examples to demonstrate the main idea of the chapter. Covers the fundamental algorithms of various fields, whether originally proposed for spoken or written language to demonstrate how the same algorithm can be used for speech recognition and word-sense disambiguation. Emphasis on web and other practical applications. Emphasis on scientific evaluation. Useful as a reference for professionals in any of the areas of speech and language processing
Print Book, English, ©2009
Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., ©2009
1024 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780135041963, 9780131873216, 0135041961, 0131873210
253202803
1. Introduction
1. I Words
2. Regular Expressions and Automata
3. Words and Transducers
4. N-grams
5. Part-of-Speech Tagging
6. Hidden Markov and Maximum Entropy Models
II Speech
7. Phonetics
8. Speech Synthesis
9. Automatic Speech Recognition
10. Speech Recognition: Advanced Topics
11. Computational Phonology
III. Syntax
12. Formal Grammars of English
13. Parsing with Context-Free Grammars
14. Statistical Parsing
15. Features and Uni-cation
16. Language and Complexity
IV. Semantics and pragmatics
17. Representing Meaning
18. Computational Semantics
19. Lexical Semantics
20. Computational Lexical Semantics
21. Computational Discourse
V. Applications
22. Information Extraction
23. Question Answering and Summarization
24. Dialogue and Conversational Agents
25. Machine Translation
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