Computational Approaches To Morphology And Syntax Paperback

Brian Roark

The book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of morphology, syntax, computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). It provides a critical and practical guide to computational techniques for handling morphological and syntactic phenomena, showing how these techniques have been used and modified in practice. The authors discuss the nature and uses of syntactic parsers and examine the problems and opportunities of parsing algorithms for finite-state, context-free and various context-sensitive grammars. They relate approaches for describing syntax and morphology to formal mechanisms and algorithms, and present well-motivated approaches for augmenting grammars with weights or probabilities.

9780199274789

English

Oxford University Press, USA

27-09-2007

338

Brian E. Roark is Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering and the Center for Spoken Language Understanding at Oregon Health & Science University. He has published papers in Computer Speech and Language, Speech Communication, Natural Language Engineering and Computational Linguistics. Richard Sproat is Professor of Linguistics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and also holds an appointment at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. His most recent book is A Computational Theory of Writing Systems (CUP, 2000).

Richard Sproat

Essential to everyone interested in morphology, syntax, computational linguistics and Natural Language Processing ... The book covers an impressive amount of material, explaining every concept concisely, exhaustively and clearly. * Anna Feldman, Word Structure * the book does a great job explaining complicated formal and algorithmic issues in an accessible way * Xiaofei Lu, Linguist List *