Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing

By Christopher Manning, Hinrich Schutze | Publisher: MIT Press

About the book

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.

Editions of Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing

Hardcover
ISBN 9780262133609
EBook
ISBN 9780262303798
EBook
ISBN 9780262312127
EBook
ISBN 9780262312134

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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.

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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.

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Language and Linguistics > Linguistics

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Christopher Manning, Hinrich Schutze

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MIT Press

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Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780262133609) and ebook(ISBN 9780262303798) and ebook(ISBN 9780262312127) and ebook(ISBN 9780262312134)

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