Language engineering for lesser-studied languages

• Corporate Authors: NATO Advanced Study Institute on Recent Advances in Language Engineering for Low- and Middle-Density Languages Batumi, Georgia), North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Public Diplomacy Division.
• Other Authors: Nirenburg, Sergei.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Washington, D.C. : IOS Press, c2009.
• Series: NATO science for peace and security series. Information and communication security ; v. 21.
• Subjects: Computational linguistics > Congresses.; Natural language processing (Computer science) > Congresses.; Computational linguistics.; Natural language processing (Computer science); LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Historical & Comparative. > Linguistics; Electronic books.
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Contains information about many core facets of modern computational-linguistic work. This book is suitable for people interested in learning about strategies that are best suited for developing computational-linguistic capabilities for lesser-studied languages - either 'from scratch' or us...

Table of Contents:

• Algorithms and data design issues for basic NLP tools / Dan Tufiş
• Treebanking in VIT : from phrase structure to dependency representation / Rodolfo Delmonte
• Developing proper name recognition, translation and matching capabilities for low-and middle-density languages / Marjorie McShane
• Bi- and multilingual electronic dictionaries : their design and application to low- and middle-density languages / Ivan A. Derzhanski
• Computational morphology for lesser-studied languages / Kemal Olfazer
• Practical syntastic processing of flexible word order languages with dynamic syntax / David Tugwell
• Computation field semantics : acquiring an ontological-semantic lexicon for a new language / Sergei Nirenburg and Marjorie McShane
• Applying machine translation for low- and middle-density languages / Stella Markantonatou ... [et al.]
• Language resources for semitic languages : challenges and solutions / Shuly Wintner
• Low-density language strategies for Persian and Armenian / Karine Megerdoomian.