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Introduction to Arabic Natural Language Processing
Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2010; US$ 40.00This book provides system developers and researchers in natural language processing and computational linguistics with the necessary background information for working with the Arabic language. The goal is to introduce Arabic linguistic phenomena and review the state-of-the-art in Arabic processing. The book discusses... more...
Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce
Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2010; US$ 40.00Our world is being revolutionized by data-driven methods: access to large amounts of data has generated new insights and opened exciting new opportunities in commerce, science, and computing applications. Processing the enormous quantities of data necessary for these advances requires large clusters, making distributed computing paradigms more crucial... more...
Numerical Methods of Statistics
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 34.00This 2001 book provides a basic background in numerical analysis and its applications in statistics. more...
Corpus-Informed Research and Learning in ESP
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2012; US$ 143.00These specially-commissioned studies cover corpus-informed approaches to researching, teaching and learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP). The corpora used range from very large published corpora to small tailor-made collections of written and spoken text, as well as parallel and contrastive corpora, in both the hard and softer sciences. Designed... more...
Corpus Linguistics and Variation in English
Editions Rodopi 2012; US$ 65.00The present volume includes a selection of 20 papers from the 31st Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), held in Giessen (Germany) in May 2010. The conference topic was Corpus linguistics and variation in English. All the papers included in the present Conference Proceedings capture... more...
Computational Modeling of Narrative
Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2012; US$ 40.00The field of narrative (or story) understanding and generation is one of the oldest in natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI), which is hardly surprising, since storytelling is such a fundamental and familiar intellectual and social activity. In recent years, the demands of interactive entertainment and interest in the creation... more...
Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2013; US$ 143.00This paper describes the thematic variation observed in two newspaper genres – news reports and commentaries – in English and Spanish and studies the influence of genre-specific and language-specific constraints on the observed variation. The study is based on the contrastive analysis of certain clausal and discourse-thematic features... more...
Semantic Relations Between Nominals
Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2013; US$ 40.00People make sense of a text by identifying the semantic relations which connect the entities or concepts described by that text. A system which aspires to human-like performance must also be equipped to identify, and learn from, semantic relations in the texts it processes. Understanding even a simple sentence such as "Opportunity and Curiosity find... more...
Mathematical Models for Speech Technology
Wiley 2005; US$ 155.00Mathematical Models of Spoken Language presents the motivations for, intuitions behind, and basic mathematical models of natural spoken language communication. A comprehensive overview is given of all aspects of the problem from the physics of speech production through the hierarchy of linguistic structure and ending with some observations on language... more...
Multilingual Speech Processing
Elsevier Science 2006; US$ 89.95Tanja Schultz and Katrin Kirchhoff have compiled a comprehensive overview of speech processing from a multilingual perspective. By taking this all-inclusive approach to speech processing, the editors have included theories, algorithms, and techniques that are required to support spoken input and output in a large variety of languages. This book presents... more...









