Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition

Ward, Nigel,Linden, Keith Vander,Kehler, Andrew,Martin, James H.,Jurafsky, Dan

ISBN 10: 0130950696 / ISBN 13: 9780130950697

Published by Prentice Hall, 1999

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Title: Speech and Language Processing: An ...

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 1999

Binding: Hardcover

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Synopsis:

For undergraduate or advanced undergraduate courses in Classical Natural Language Processing, Statistical Natural Language Processing, Speech Recognition, Computational Linguistics, and Human Language Processing.

This book takes an empirical approach to language processing, based on applying statistical and other machine-learning algorithms to large corporations.

 

Author Website with Resources: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~martin/slp.html

About the Author:

Dan Jurafsky is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics, and by courtesy in Department of Computer Science, at Stanford University. Previously, he was on the faculty of the University of Colorado, Boulder, in the Linguistics and Computer Science departments and the Institute of Cognitive Science. He was born in Yonkers, New York, and received a B.A. in Linguistics in 1983 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1992, both from the University of California at Berkeley. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 1998 and the MacArthur Fellowship in 2002. He has published over 90 papers on a wide range of topics in speech and language processing.

 

James H. Martin is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and in the Department of Linguistics, and a fellow in the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He was born in New York City, received a B.S. in Comoputer Science from Columbia University in 1981 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in  1988. He has authored over 70 publications in computer science including the book A Computational Model of Metaphor Interpretation.