Natural Language Understanding (2nd Edition) (original 1987; edition 1994)

by James Allen

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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… (more)

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I purchased this more at less at random when I was first investigating the field of natural language processing and haven't looked at it much since. The focus is on deterministic methods, e.g. parsing, unification, and semantic data structures. There is nothing about probabilistic methods. May be a decent reference for the non-stochastic side of things; I really haven't read enough to know.

billmcn | Aug 6, 2007 |

Nice book, and the best in its day. Heavy on syntax for my taste (about half the book if I recall) but I'm more interested in semantics and knowledge representation anyway. And this is a textbook, so it ought to cover everything evenly: and it does. (

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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

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