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Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation

DARPA Global Autonomous Language Exploitation

  • Written by leading experts in machine translation -Provides intricate machine translation discussions ranging from text, speech, distillation, evaluation, operational engines, data acquisiton and linguistic resources -Comprises the largest comprehensive effort in the field -Equips researchers with the latest technologies in natural language, speech and signal processing, and

  • machine translation

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
  2. Data Acquisition and Linguistic Resources

    • Stephanie Strassel, Caitlin Christianson, John McCary, William Staderman, Joseph Olive
    Pages 1-131
  3. Machine Translation from Text

    • Nizar Habash, Joseph Olive, Caitlin Christianson, John McCary
    Pages 133-397
  4. Machine Translation from Speech

    • Richard Schwartz, Joseph Olive, John McCary, Caitlin Christianson
    Pages 399-615
  5. Distillation

    • Radu Hans Florian, Joseph Olive, Caitlin Christianson, John McCary
    Pages 617-743
  6. Machine Translation Evaluation and Optimization

    • Bonnie Dorr, Joseph Olive, John McCary, Caitlin Christianson
    Pages 745-843
  7. Operational Engines

    • Douglas W. Oard, Carl Madson, Joseph Olive, John McCary, Caitlin Christianson
    Pages 845-932
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 933-936

About this book

This comprehensive handbook, written by leading experts in the field, details the groundbreaking research conducted under the breakthrough GALE program--The Global Autonomous Language Exploitation within the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), while placing it in the context of previous research in the fields of natural language and signal processing, artificial intelligence and machine translation.

The most fundamental contrast between GALE and its predecessor programs was its holistic integration of previously separate or sequential processes. In earlier language research programs, each of the individual processes was performed separately and sequentially: speech recognition, language recognition, transcription, translation, and content summarization. The GALE program employed a distinctly new approach by executing these processes simultaneously. Speech and language recognition algorithms now aid translation and transcription processes and vice versa. This combination of previously distinct processes has produced significant research and performance breakthroughs and has fundamentally changed the natural language processing and machine translation fields.

This comprehensive handbook provides an exhaustive exploration into these latest technologies in natural language, speech and signal processing, and machine translation, providing researchers, practitioners and students with an authoritative reference on the topic.

Reviews

From the reviews:

“The book presents the very interesting and useful results of the work developed under the Global Autonomous Language Exploitation (GALE) program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). … Although more work is still to be done for achieving full language comprehension, the currently obtained results are already very impressive.” (Ruxandra Stoean, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1230, 2012)

“It provides a detailed snapshot of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) five-year Global Autonomous Language Exploitation (GALE) project at the end of its third year. … The innovative idea of GALE is to have the analytic processes involved in translation apply concurrently rather than sequentially, thus creating a community of experts that can interact with each other if ambiguities or uncertainties arise. … The different write-ups are very engaging, and each subsection concludes with concise summaries. … this book delivers true breakthroughs.” (Klaus K. Obermeier, ACM Computing Reviews, December, 2011)

Editors and Affiliations

  • , IPTO, Defense Advanced Research Projects, Arlington, USA

    Joseph Olive

  • Reston, USA

    Caitlin Christianson

  • Bethesda, USA

    John McCary

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation

  • Book Subtitle: DARPA Global Autonomous Language Exploitation

  • Editors: Joseph Olive, Caitlin Christianson, John McCary

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7713-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-7712-0Published: 08 March 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-7713-7Published: 02 March 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 936

  • Topics: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligence, Signal, Image and Speech Processing

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eBook USD 229.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 299.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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