Introduction to Chinese natural language processing

• Other Authors: Wong, Kam-Fai.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2010.
• Series: Synthesis lectures on human language technologies (Online), # 4.
• Subjects: Chinese language > Lexicology > Data processing.; Natural language processing (Computer science); Computational linguistics.
• Online Access: Abstract with links to full text
• Item Description: Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.; Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on November 4, 2009).; Series from website.
• Physical Description: 1 electronic text (x, 148 p. : ill.) : digital file.; Also available in print.
• Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.; System requirements: Adobe Acrobat reader.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-145).
• ISBN: 9781598299335 (electronic bk.)
• ISSN: 1947-4059
• Access: Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers.

This book introduces Chinese language-processing issues and techniques to readers who already have a basic background in natural language processing (NLP). Since the major difference between Chinese and Western languages is at the word level, the book primarily focuses on Chinese morphological analysis and introduces the concept, structure, and interword semantics of Chinese words. The following topics are covered: a general introduction to Chinese NLP; Chinese characters, morphemes, and words and the characteristics of Chinese words that have to be considered in NLP applications; Chinese word segmentation; unknown word detection; word meaning and Chinese linguistic resources; interword semantics based on word collocation and NLP techniques for collocation extraction.