Natural Language Understanding by James Allen

Natural Language Understanding by James Allen

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Delivering coverage of semantic discourse and context, this book provides detailed and extensive examples of each technique it describes. It uses a uniform notation for all different algorithm techniques. This revised edition has chapters on statistically-based techniques and speech processing.

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Natural Language Understanding by James Allen

This long-awaited revision offers a comprehensive introduction to natural language understanding with developments and research in the field today. Building on the effective framework of the first edition, the new edition gives the same balanced coverage of syntax, semantics, and discourse, and offers a uniform framework based on feature-based context-free grammars and chart parsers used for syntactic and semantic processing. Thorough treatment of issues in discourse and context-dependent interpretation is also provided. In addition, this title offers coverage of two entirely new subject areas. First, the text features a new chapter on statistically-based methods using large corpora. Second, it includes an appendix on speech recognition and spoken language understanding. Also, the information on semantics that was covered in the first edition has been largely expanded in this edition to include an emphasis on compositional interpretation. 0805303340B04062001

James Allen is the John H. Dessaurer Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester. He has taught natural language processing to undergraduate and graduate students for 14 years. He is a fellow of the AAAI and was the recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award (1985-1989). In addition, Professor Allen was the Editor-in- Chief of Computational Linguistics from 1983-1993.



0805303340AB04062001
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ISBN 13 9780805303346
ISBN 10 0805303340
Title Natural Language Understanding
Author James Allen
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Pearson Education (US)
Year published 1994-08-25
Number of pages 672
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