Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing

Computational linguistics deals with the study of the morphology of language as well as its syntax and dynamic use in order to enable machines process human language. There are numerous applications of this field, such as text-to-speech software, speech recognition and grammar checking. The ability of a computer program to understand human language is known as natural language processing. The two main techniques used with natural language processing are semantic and syntax analysis. Some of the syntax techniques are parsing, word segmentation and sentence breaking. The techniques which are associated with semantics are word sense disambiguation, named entity recognition and natural language generation. This book provides significant information of this discipline to help develop a good understanding of computational linguistics and natural language processing. It will serve as a valuable source of reference for graduate and post graduate students.