Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing

by Manning, Schuetze

ISBN: 9780262312134 | Copyright 1999

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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.

Statistical natural-language processing is, in my estimation, one of the most fast-moving and exciting areas of computer science these days. Anyone who wants to learn this field would be well advised to get this book. For that matter, the same goes for anyone who is already in the field. I know that it is going to be one of the most well-thumbed books on my bookshelf.

Eugene Charniak Department of Computer Science, Brown University
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Cover (pg. Cover)
Brief Contents (pg. v)
Contents (pg. vii)
List of Tables (pg. xv)
List of Figures (pg. xxi)
Table of Notations (pg. xxv)
Preface (pg. xxix)
Road Map (pg. xxxv)
I Preliminaries (pg. 1)
1 Introduction (pg. 3)
2 Mathematical Foundations (pg. 39)
3 Linguistic Essentials (pg. 81)
4 Corpus-Based Work (pg. 117)
II Words (pg. 149)
5 Collocations (pg. 151)
6 Statistical Inference (pg. 191)
7 Word Sense Disambiguation (pg. 229)
8 Lexical Acquisition (pg. 265)
III Grammar (pg. 315)
9 Markov Models (pg. 317)
10 Part-of-Speech Tagging (pg. 341)
11 Probabilistic Context Free Grammars (pg. 381)
12 Probabilistic Parsing (pg. 407)
IV Applications and Techniques (pg. 461)
13 Statistical Alignment and Machine Translation (pg. 463)
14 Clustering (pg. 495)
15 Topics in Information Retrieval (pg. 529)
16 Text Categorization (pg. 575)
Tiny Statistical Tables (pg. 609)
Bibliography (pg. 611)
Index (pg. 657)
Cover (pg. Cover)
Brief Contents (pg. v)
Contents (pg. vii)
List of Tables (pg. xv)
List of Figures (pg. xxi)
Table of Notations (pg. xxv)
Preface (pg. xxix)
Road Map (pg. xxxv)
I Preliminaries (pg. 1)
1 Introduction (pg. 3)
2 Mathematical Foundations (pg. 39)
3 Linguistic Essentials (pg. 81)
4 Corpus-Based Work (pg. 117)
II Words (pg. 149)
5 Collocations (pg. 151)
6 Statistical Inference (pg. 191)
7 Word Sense Disambiguation (pg. 229)
8 Lexical Acquisition (pg. 265)
III Grammar (pg. 315)
9 Markov Models (pg. 317)
10 Part-of-Speech Tagging (pg. 341)
11 Probabilistic Context Free Grammars (pg. 381)
12 Probabilistic Parsing (pg. 407)
IV Applications and Techniques (pg. 461)
13 Statistical Alignment and Machine Translation (pg. 463)
14 Clustering (pg. 495)
15 Topics in Information Retrieval (pg. 529)
16 Text Categorization (pg. 575)
Tiny Statistical Tables (pg. 609)
Bibliography (pg. 611)
Index (pg. 657)

Christopher Manning

Christopher Manning


Hinrich Schuetze

Hinrich Schuetze


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