Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Proc

Statisticalapproachestoprocessingnaturallanguagetexthavebecomedominantinrecentyears.Thisfoundationaltextisthefirstcomprehensiveintroductiontostatisticalnaturallanguageprocessing(NLP)toappear.ThebookcontainsallthetheoryandalgorithmsneededforbuildingNLPtools.Itprovidesbroadbutrigorouscoverageofmathematicalandlinguisticfoundations，aswellasdetaileddiscussionofstatisticalmethods，allowingstudentsandresearcherstoconstructtheirownimplementations.Thebookcoverscollocationfinding，wordsensedisambiguation，probabilisticparsing，informationretrieval，andotherapplications.