Language Engineering

ISBN: 9781847040121

Publication Date: 2012   Hardback   320 pp.

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Description

This book gives a progress report on the current state of this field, specifying both its advantages and limitations. It is structured in three major parts. First, an overview is given of the main tools and formalisms for automated language processing at lexical, syntactic and semantic levels. Next, coverage is given to the current tools of definition and management of essential linguistic resources in many projects of language engineering. Finally, the principal applications are detailed.

Contents

Part 1: Tools and formalisms for automated language processing
1. Words and lexical level, Eric Laporte.
2. Grammars and parsers, Philippe Blache, Anne Abeillé.
3. Semantic processing of languages, Gérard Sabah.
Part 2: Development and maintenance of linguistic resources
4. Automatic annotation of corpus, Jean Véronis.
5. Morpho-syntactic labeling, Patrick Paroubek, Martin Rajman.
6. Paralled text processing, Jean Véronis.
7. Textual resources coding and standardization, Patrice Bonhomme, Laurent Romary.
8. On-line access to linguistic resources, Laurent Romary.
Part 3: Overview of principal applications of language engineering
9. Construction of terminological resources,
Didier Bourigault, Christian Jacquemin.
10. Indexing and search for textual information, Christian Fluhr.
11. Automatic abstract and semantic filtering of texts,
Jean-Luc Minel, Jean-Pierre Desclés.
12. Automated translation, Christian Boitet.
13. Automatic comprehension of texts, Brigitte Grau, Gérard Sabah.
14. Automatic generation of texts, Laurence Danlos, Laurent Roussarie.
15. Man-machine dialogue, Jean-Marie Pierrel, Laurent Romary.

About the Authors

Jean-Marie Pierrel is Professor at the Henri Poincaré University of Nancy, France, and is a researcher in computational linguistics. He has published more than 100 journal and conference papers in the fields of language understanding and computerized linguistic resources for automated language processing.