Computational and corpus linguistics

This book provides an up-to-date snapshot of recent research and developments in the use of corpora for language learning and teaching.

Extraction and Representation of Prosodic Features for Speech Processing Applications deals with prosody from speech processing point of view with topics including: The significance of prosody for speech processing applicationsWhy prosody need to be incorporated in speech processing applicationsDifferent methods for extraction and representation of prosody for applications such as speech synthesis, speaker recognition, language recognition and speech recognitionThis book is for researchers and students at the graduate level.

Since the last edition of this book (2014), progress has been astonishing in all areas of Natural Language Processing, with recent achievements in Text Generation that spurred a media interest going beyond the traditional academic circles.

Computational linguistics can be used to uncover mysteries in text which are not always obvious to visual inspection.

This book presents research and applications on arrival estimation and localization in speech processing to ensure that the broad vision of the direction of arrival estimation (DOAE) / localization of speech sources is well-established.

Offers an up-to-date analysis of issues related to providing, using and researching feedback, including new developments in technology.

This book is at the very heart of linguistics.

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.

Quotient Space Based Problem Solving provides an in-depth treatment of hierarchical problem solving, computational complexity, and the principles and applications of multi-granular computing, including inference, information fusing, planning, and heuristic search.

Continued progress in Speech Technology in the face of ever-increasing demands on the performance levels of applications is a challenge to the whole speech and language science community.

The first of its kind, this Handbook provides an in-depth overview of all current issues and trends in experimental syntax.

For professional speech researchers, there is a rich technical literature covering many years of primary research in speech.

This book discusses the Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) framework applied in dialogue systems.

This book develops a morphodynamical approach to linguistic and sign structures as an integrated response to multilevel and interrelated problems in semiolinguistic research.

This book traces the history of language technology from writing - the first technology specifically designed for language - to digital speech and other contemporary language systems.

Presents a computational model of sentence processing that is grounded in decades of research in cognitive psychology and AI.

This unique book provides a comprehensive introduction to the most popular syntax-based statistical machine translation models, filling a gap in the current literature for researchers and developers in human language technologies.

This is the latest addition to a group of handbooks covering the field of morphology, alongside The Oxford Handbook of Case (2008), The Oxford Handbook of Compounding (2009), and The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology (2014).

Language and Computers introduces students to the fundamentals of how computers are used to represent, process, and organize textual and spoken information.

Adriana Belletti here collects work presented by top scholars at a workshop at the University of Siena in connection with a visit by Noam Chomsky.

This book conveys the fundamentals of Linked Lexical Knowledge Bases (LLKB) and sheds light on their different aspects from various perspectives, focusing on their construction and use in natural language processing (NLP).

To join the recent debate on data problem in linguistics, this collection of papers provides complex dual purpose analyses at the interface of semantics and pragmatics (including historical, lexical, formal and experimental pragmatics).

This book studies Chinese opposites.

Syntax-Based Collocation Extraction is the first book to offer a comprehensive, up-to-date review of the theoretical and applied work on word collocations.

From tech giants to plucky startups, the world is full of companies boasting that they are on their way to replacing human interpreters, but are they right?

In opposition to the classical set theory of natural language, Novak's highly original monograph offers a theory based on alternative and fuzzy sets.

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

This book sheds new light on the form and function of morphemes in construction of words in the Bengali language.

This book introduces a theory, Naive Semantics (NS), a theory of the knowledge underlying natural language understanding.

Linguistic theories often suffer from the dilemma that their explanatory power is based on extra-linguistic assumptions.

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The highly frequent word items TO and OF are often conceived merely as prepositions, carrying little meaning in themselves.

Natural Language Processing in the Real World is a practical guide for applying data science and machine learning to build Natural Language Processing (NLP) solutions.

Do you want to gain a deeper understanding of how big tech analyses and exploits our text data, or investigate how political parties differ by analysing textual styles, associations and trends in documents?

Marcus Contextual Grammars is the first monograph to present a class of grammars introduced about three decades ago, based on the fundamental linguistic phenomenon of strings-contexts interplay (selection).

Text production has many applications.

This book encompasses a collection of topics covering recent advances that are important to the Arabic language in areas of natural language processing, speech and image analysis.