Language Engineering [Hardcover]

Language Engineering examines the processes involved in dictionary-making, parsing, spell-checking, lexical semantics, machine translation, question answering and text attribution. The dictionary-building and natural language processing techniques examined are applicable to most languages, and the book includes extensive examples in English, French and German.

This book is the first detailed description of morphology, syntax and semantics using the C(C++) programming language, and as such should be essential reading for researchers in natural language processing and computational linguistics.
Language Engineering examines the processes involved in dictionary-making, parsing, spell-checking, lexical semantics, machine translation, question answering and text attribution. The dictionary-building and natural language processing techniques examined are applicable to most languages, and the book includes extensive examples in English, French and German.

This book is the first detailed description of morphology, syntax and semantics using the C(C++) programming language, and as such should be essential reading for researchers in natural language processing and computational linguistics.

Preface
Part 1: Preparatory Work
1. Dictionary of Wordforms
2. Disambiguation Procedures
3. Parsing
Part 2: Spheres of Application
4. Orthographical Rules
5. Grammatical Rules
6. Computational Semantics
7. Representation of Knowledge
8. Machine Translation 9. Question Answering
10. Content Recognition and Text Attribution to a Particular Subject Field
11. Information Retrieval
12. German and French Sequences of Parts of Speech
Appendix:
German dictionary of segments
French dictionary of segments