This comprehensive handbook presents practical tools and techniques for implementing natural language processing in computer systems. Along with removing outdated material, this edition offers greater prominence to statistical approaches and a broader multilingual scope to include Asian and European languages. It also contains a new applications section that covers many well-known and emerging applications, including machine translation, biomedical text mining, and sentiment analysis. In addition, an actively maintained companion wiki provides online resources, supplementary information, and current developments.
Nitin Indurkhya is an associate professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is also the founder and president of Data-Miner Pty Ltd, which offers education, training, and consulting services in data/text analytics and human language technologies.
Before his death, Fred J. Damerau was a researcher at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, where he worked on machine learning approaches to natural language processing.