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Zusatztext '...well structured and presents a good overview of approaches to anaphora resolution......a useful reference book for everyone in the field.'Judita Preiss - Natural Language Engineering Journal! Vol 11/4 2005"...well structured and presents a good overview of approaches to anaphora resolution.""...a useful reference book for everyone in the field."Judita Preiss - Natural Language Engineering! Volume 11/4 - 2005 Informationen zum Autor Dr. Ruslan Mitkov is Professor of Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering at the University of Wolverhampton. Ruslan Mitkov's publications and interests cover areas such as anaphora resolution, machine translation, automatic abstracting, centering, term extraction, question answering and computer-aided language learning Klappentext "The police told the demonstrators that, unless, they dispersed peacefully, they would arrest them." How do we understand who the pronouns 'they' and 'them' refer to? And how do we teach computers to solve this kind of problem? Anaphora Resolution seeks to answer these kind of questions. Teaching computers to solve this kind of problem is one of the major headaches of natural language processing, and there continues to be a large amount of interesting research devoted to the field. Ruslan Mitkov begins by introducing basic notions and terminology, moving onto early research methods and approaches, recent developments and applications and then future directions. Zusammenfassung Teaching computers to solve language problems is one of the major challenges of natural language processing. There is a large amount of interesting research devoted to this field. This book fills an existing gap in the literature with an up-to-date survey of the field, including the author’s own contributions. A number of different fields overlap in anaphora resolution – computational linguistics, natural language processing (NLP), grammar, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis and artificial intelligence. This book begins by introducing basic notions and terminology, moving onto early research methods and approaches, recent developments and applications, and future directions. It addresses various issues related to the practical implementation of anaphora systems, such as rules employed, algorithms implemented or evaluation techniques used. This is an ideal reference book for students and researchers in this particular area of computational linguistics. Since anaphora resolution is vital for the development of any practical NLP system, the book will be of interest to readers from both academia and industry. Inhaltsverzeichnis ONE: Linguistic Fundamentals TWO: The Process of Automatic Anaphora Resolution THREE: Theories and Formalisms used in Anaphora Resolution FOUR: The Past: Work in the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's FIVE: The Present: Knowledge-poor and Corpus-based Approaches in the 1990's and Beyond SIX: The Role of Corpora in Anaphora Resolution SEVEN: An Approach in Focus: Mitkov's Robust, Knowledge-poor Algorithm EIGHT: Evaluation in Anaphora Resolution NINE: Outstanding Issues...
