Collaborative Language Engineering

A Case Study in Efficient Grammar-Based Processing

Hans Uszkoreit editor Stephan Oepen editor Dan Flickinger editor Jun-ichi Tsujii editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Centre for the Study of Language & Information

Published:7th Mar '08

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During the 1990s, work in language engineering saw a dramatic increase in the power and sophistication of statistical approaches to natural languge processing (NLP), along with a growth in the recognition that these methods alone cannot meet the full range of demands for applications of NLP. While statistical methods can bring real advatages in robustness and efficiency, they do not provide the precise, reliable representations of meaning which more conventional symbolic grammars can supply for natural language. A consistent, fine-grained mapping between form and meaning is of critical importance in some NLP applications. This volume provides an update on the development and application of broad-coverage declarative grammars built on sound linguistic foundations and presents several aspects of international research efforts to produce comprehensive, re-usable grammars and efficient technology for parsing and generating with such grammars.

ISBN: 9781575862897

Dimensions: 24mm x 16mm x 2mm

Weight: 482g

271 pages