Overview
- Brings humans and machines closer together by showing how linguistic complexities that confound the speech systems of today can be handled effectively by sophisticated natural-language technology
- Proposes innovative solutions to the problems of recognizing and processing idiomatic expressions, understanding metaphors, matching an anaphor correctly with its antecedent, performing word-sense disambiguation, and handling out-of-vocabulary words and phrases
- Provides an analysis of the role of natural language technology in the global marketplace
- Explores the need for natural language mapping-tools that can cull important data from the vast array of social-media postings
- Covers innovative Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods and applications
- Offers innovative NLP tools for physicians, educators, and translators
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Natural-Language Technology and the Global Marketplace
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Advanced NLP Methods and Applications
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Innovative NLP Tools for Physicians, Educators and Translators
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Amy Neustein, Ph.D. is the Founder and CEO of Linguistic Technology Systems.
Judith Markowitz, Ph.D. is the President of J. Markowitz, Consultants.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Where Humans Meet Machines
Book Subtitle: Innovative Solutions for Knotty Natural-Language Problems
Editors: Amy Neustein, Judith A. Markowitz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6934-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-6933-9
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9182-9
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-6934-6
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 315
Topics: Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Computational Linguistics, Machinery and Machine Elements, Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks