Imed Zitouni's Natural Language Processing of Semitic Languages (Theory and PDF

By Imed Zitouni

Research in ordinary Language Processing (NLP) has swiftly complicated in recent times, leading to fascinating algorithms for classy processing of textual content and speech in numerous languages. a lot of this paintings makes a speciality of English; during this booklet we tackle one other workforce of attention-grabbing and hard languages for NLP study: the Semitic languages. The Semitic workforce of languages contains Arabic (206 million local speakers), Amharic (27 million), Hebrew (7 million), Tigrinya (6.7 million), Syriac (1 million) and Maltese (419 thousand). Semitic languages express specific morphological procedures, tough syntactic structures and diverse different phenomena which are much less known in different common languages. those demanding situations demand certain recommendations, a lot of that are defined during this book.

The thirteen chapters provided during this e-book compile major scientists from a number of universities and learn institutes around the globe. whereas this e-book devotes a few consciousness to state of the art algorithms and methods, its fundamental objective is a radical explication of top practices within the box. moreover, each bankruptcy describes how the recommendations mentioned observe to Semitic languages. The e-book covers either statistical techniques to NLP, that are dominant throughout a number of functions these days and the extra conventional, rule-based methods, that have been confirmed worthwhile for numerous different program domain names. we are hoping that this booklet will supply a "one-stop-shop'' for the entire needful heritage and sensible recommendation whilst development NLP purposes for Semitic languages.

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