The book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of morphology, syntax, computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). It provides a critical and practical guide to computational techniques for handling morphological and syntactic phenomena, showing how these techniques have been used and modified in practice. The authors discuss the nature and uses of syntactic parsers and examine the problems and opportunities of parsing algorithms for finite-state, context-free and various context-sensitive grammars. They relate approaches for describing syntax and morphology to formal mechanisms and algorithms, and present well-motivated approaches for augmenting grammars with weights or probabilities.

About the Author
Brian E. Roark is Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering and the Center for Spoken Language Understanding at Oregon Health & Science University. He has published papers in Computer Speech and Language, Speech Communication, Natural Language Engineering and Computational Linguistics. Richard Sproat is Professor of Linguistics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and also holds an appointment at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. His most recent book is A Computational Theory of Writing Systems (CUP, 2000).

Reviews
the book does a great job explaining complicated formal and algorithmic issues in an accessible way * Xiaofei Lu, Linguist List *
essential to everyone interested in morphology, syntax, computational linguistics and Natural Language Processing ... The book covers an impressive amount of material, explaining every concept concisely, exhaustively and clearly. * Anna Feldman, Word Structure *



Book Information
ISBN 9780199274789
Author Brian Roark
Format Paperback
Page Count 338
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 586g
Dimensions(mm) 245mm * 170mm * 18mm