Speech & Language Processing, 1/e (Paperback)

Speech & Language Processing, 1/e Book Description

This book offers a unified vision of speech and language processing, presenting state-of-the-art algorithms and techniques for both speech and text-based processing of natural language. This comprehensive work covers both statistical and symbolic approaches to language processing; it shows how they can be applied to important tasks such as speech recognition, spelling and grammar correction, information extraction, search engines, machine translation, and the creation of spoken-language dialog agents.

1. Introduction.

1. Regular Expressions and Automata.
2. Morphology and Finite-State Transducers.
3. Computational Phonology and Text-to-Speech.
4. Probabilistic Models of Pronunciation and Spelling.
5. N-grams.
6. HMMs and Speech Recognition.

1. Word Classes and Part-of-Speech Tagging.
2. Context-Free Grammars for English.
3. Parsing with Context-Free Grammars.
4. Features and Unification.
5. Lexicalized and Probabilistsic Parsing.
6. Language and Complexity.

1. Representing Meaning.
2. Semantic Analysis.
3. Lexical Semantics.
4. Word Sense Disambiguation and Information Retrieval.

1. Discourse.
2. Dialogue and Conversational Agents.
3. Natural Language Generation.
4. Machine Translation.

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