Description
Statistical approaches to processing natural language text have turn out to be dominant in latest years. This foundational text is the primary comprehensive introduction to statistical natural language processing (NLP) to look. The book incorporates the entire theory and algorithms wanted for building NLP tools. It supplies broad but rigorous coverage of mathematical and linguistic foundations, in addition to detailed discussion of statistical methods, allowing students and researchers to construct their very own implementations. The book covers collocation finding, word sense disambiguation, probabilistic parsing, information retrieval, and other applications.