Computational Approaches to Morphology and Syntax

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-927478-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 338 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 585 g

The book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of morphology, syntax, computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). It provides a critical and practical guide to computational techniques for handling morphological and syntactic phenomena, showing how these techniques have been used and modified in practice.

The authors discuss the nature and uses of syntactic parsers and examine the problems and opportunities of parsing algorithms for finite-state, context-free and various context-sensitive grammars. They relate approaches for describing syntax and morphology to formal mechanisms and algorithms, and present well-motivated approaches for augmenting grammars with weights or probabilities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roark, Brian

Sproat, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Introduction and Preliminaries

- Part I Computational Approaches to Morphology

- 2: The Formal Characterization of Morphological Operations

- 3: The Relevance of Computational Issues for Morphological Theory

- 4: A Brief History of Computational Morphology

- 5: Machine Learning of Morphology

- Part II Computational Approaches to Syntax

- 6: Finite-State Approaches to Syntax

- 7: Basic Context-Free Approaches to Syntax

- 8: Enriched Context-Free Approaches to Syntax

- 9: Context-Sensitive Approaches to Syntax

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Brian E. Roark is Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering and the Center for Spoken Language Understanding at Oregon Health & Science University. He has published papers in Computer Speech and Language, Speech Communication, Natural Language Engineering and Computational Linguistics.

Richard Sproat is Professor of Linguistics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and also holds an appointment at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. His most recent book is A Computational Theory of Writing Systems (CUP, 2000).