Computational and corpus linguistics

More and more historical texts are becoming available in digital form.

Discourse Processing here is framed as marking up a text with structural descriptions on several levels, which can serve to support many language-processing or text-mining tasks.

A major part of natural language processing now depends on the use of text data to build linguistic analyzers.

This book provides an overview of various techniques for the alignment of bitexts.

This book provides system developers and researchers in natural language processing and computational linguistics with the necessary background information for working with the Arabic language.

Our world is being revolutionized by data-driven methods: access to large amounts of data has generated new insights and opened exciting new opportunities in commerce, science, and computing applications.

This book is aimed at providing an overview of several aspects of semantic role labeling.

Considerable progress has been made in recent years in the development of dialogue systems that support robust and efficient human-machine interaction using spoken language.

This book introduces Chinese language-processing issues and techniques to readers who already have a basic background in natural language processing (NLP).

Linguistic annotation and text analytics are active areas of research and development, with academic conferences and industry events such as the Linguistic Annotation Workshops and the annual Text Analytics Summits.

Dependency-based methods for syntactic parsing have become increasingly popular in natural language processing in recent years.

As online information grows dramatically, search engines such as Google are playing a more and more important role in our lives.

Sentiment analysis and opinion mining is the field of study that analyzes people's opinions, sentiments, evaluations, attitudes, and emotions from written language.

Human language acquisition has been studied for centuries, but using computational modeling for such studies is a relatively recent trend.

Search for information is no longer exclusively limited within the native language of the user, but is more and more extended to other languages.

This SpringerBrief presents the data- information-and-time (DIT) model that precisely clarifies the semantics behind the terms data, information and their relations to the passage of real time.

Computers are essential for the functioning of our society.

This handbook provides a comprehensive account of current research on the finite-state morphology of Georgian and enables the reader to enter quickly into Georgian morphosyntax and its computational processing.

The book covers theoretical work, approaches, applications, and techniques for computational models of information, language, and reasoning.

This book furthers the historical and technical debate by looking at reasoning as the action of language when it is devoted to explaining or foretelling, based on the authors' centennial combined experience in fuzzy logic.

The book presents current research and developments in multilingual speech recognition.

This book provides insights into how deep learning techniques impact language and speech processing applications.

This book explores how corpus linguistic techniques can be applied to close analysis of videogames as a text, particularly examining how language is used to construct representations of gender in fantasy videogames.

When viewed through a political lens, the act of defining terms in natural language arguably transforms knowledge into values.

This case study-based textbook in multivariate analysis for advanced students in the humanities emphasizes descriptive, exploratory analyses of various types of datasets from a wide range of sub-disciplines, promoting the use of multivariate analysis and illustrating its wide applicability.

This book covers theoretical work, applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information and its presentation by language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways).

This book explores some of the ethical, legal, and social implications of chatbots, or conversational artificial agents.

This book deals with two fundamental issues in the semiotics of the image.

Focusing on methodologies, applications and challenges of textual data analysis and related fields, this book gathers selected and peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 14th International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Textual Data (JADT 2018), held in Rome, Italy, on June 12-15, 2018.

This book presents methods and approaches used to identify the true author of a doubtful document or text excerpt.

This book presents the concept of the double hierarchy linguistic term set and its extensions, which can deal with dynamic and complex decision-making problems.

This volume offers a diachronic sociolinguistic perspective on one of the most complex and fascinating variable speech phenomena in contemporary French.

This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the city image in the Hebrew Bible, with specific attention to stylistics.

This book presents established and state-of-the-art methods in Language Technology (including text mining, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, and natural language processing), and demonstrates how they can be applied by humanities scholars working with textual data.

This handbook is a comprehensive practical resource on corpus linguistics.

This book explains speech enhancement in the Fractional Fourier Transform (FRFT) domain and investigates the use of different FRFT algorithms in both single channel and multi-channel enhancement systems, which has proven to be an ideal time frequency analysis tool in many speech signal processing applications.

This book builds on decades of research and provides contemporary theoretical foundations for practical applications to intelligent technologies and advances in artificial intelligence (AI).

Now in its second edition, Text Analysis with R provides a practical introduction to computational text analysis using the open source programming language R.

This book provides a timely and comprehensive overview of current theories and methods in fuzzy logic, as well as relevant applications in a variety of fields of science and technology.

This book explores the use of discourse markers - lexical items where drawing a distinction between propositional and non-propositional, syntactically-semantically integrated and discourse-pragmatic uses is especially relevant.

This book offers a descriptive and practical analysis of prosody in dubbed speech, examining the most distinctive traits that typify dubbed dialogue at the prosodic level.

This book analyses the English writing and publishing experiences of 118 scholars from 18 Chinese universities from a social-cognitive perspective.

The Digital Parisian Stage Project aims to compile a corpus of plays that are representative of performances in the theaters of Paris through history.

This book focuses mainly on logical approaches to computational linguistics, but also discusses integrations with other approaches, presenting both classic and newly emerging theories and applications.

This book focuses on the multifarious aspects of 'fuzzy boundaries' in the field of discourse studies, a field that is marked by complex boundary work and a great degree of fuzziness regarding theoretical frameworks, methodologies, and the use of linguistic categories.

This book is a comparative corpus-based study of discourse markers based on verbs of saying in English and French.

This book provides information on digital audio watermarking, its applications, and its evaluation for copyright protection of audio signals - both basic and advanced.

This edited book includes chapters that explore the impact of war and its aftermath in language and official discourse.

This book introduces a novel type of expert finder system that can determine the knowledge that specific users within a community hold, using explicit and implicit data sources to do so.

The general focus of this book is on multimodal communication, which captures the temporal patterns of behavior in various dialogue settings.