Balancing Act - Combining Symbolic and Statistical Approaches to Language

The topics covered include an examination of the relationship between traditional linguistics and statistical methods, qualitative and quantitative methods of speech translation, study and implementation of combined techniques for automatic extraction of terminology, comparative analysis of the contributions of linguistic cues to a statistical word grouping system, automatic construction of a symbolic parser via statistical techniques, combining linguistic with statistical methods in automatic speech understanding, exploring the nature of transformation-based learning, and a hybrid symbolic/statistical approach to recovering from parser failures.

Summary

The eight contributions in this book explore the inevitable "balancing act" that must take place when symbolic and statistical approaches to language are brought together. The topics covered include qualitative and quantative methods of speech translation and transformation based learning.

Product details

• Authors: Judith Klavans, Judith Resnik Klavans, Judith Klavens, Philip Resnik
• Assisted by: Judith Klavans (Editor), Judith L. Klavans (Editor), Judith L. (University of Maryland) Klavans (Editor), Philip Resnik (Editor), Philip (University Of Maryland) Resnik (Editor)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.12.1996
• EAN: 9780262611220
• ISBN: 978-0-262-61122-0
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: Language, Speech, and Communication; Language, Speech, and Communic; Language, Speech, and Communication; Language, Speech, and Communic
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics