Date: 15-Dec-2005 From: Joyce Reid <jreidcup.org> Subject: Memory-Based Language Processing: Daeleman, van den Bosch
Title: Memory-Based Language Processing
Series Title: Studies in Natural Language Processing
Published: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://us.cambridge.org
Author: Walter Daeleman
Author: Antal van den Bosch
Hardback: ISBN: 0521808901 Pages: 197 Price: U.K. £ 45.00
Hardback: ISBN: 0521808901 Pages: 197 Price: U.S. $ 75.00
Abstract:
Memory-based language processing - a machine learning and problem solving method for language technology - is based on the idea that the direct re-use of examples using analogical reasoning is more suited for solving language processing problems than the application of rules extracted from those examples. This book discusses the theory and practice of memory-based language processing, showing its comparative strengths over alternative methods of language modelling. Language is complex, with few generalizations, many sub-regularities and exceptions, and the advantage of memory-based language processing is that it does not abstract away from this valuable low-frequency information. By applying the model to a range of benchmark problems, the authors show that for linguistic areas ranging from phonology to semantics, it produces excellent results. They also describe TiMBL, a software package for memory-based language processing. The first comprehensive overview of the approach, this book will be invaluable for computational linguists, psycholinguists and language engineers.
1. Memory-based learning in natural language processing 2. Inspirations from linguistics and artificial intelligence 3. Memory and similarity 4. Application to morpho-phonology 5. Application to shallow parsing 6. Abstraction and generalization 7. Extensions
Linguistic Field(s):
Computational Linguistics
Psycholinguistics
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