The People’s Web Meets NLP

By Iryna Gurevych

Subjects: Information retrieval, Linguistics, Translators (Computer programs), Document Preparation and Text Processing, Language Translation and Linguistics, Data mining, Natural language processing (computer science), Information storage and retrieval systems, Information organization, Computational linguistics, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Text processing (Computer science)

Description: Collaboratively Constructed Language Resources (CCLRs) such as Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Linked Open Data, and various resources developed using crowdsourcing techniques such as Games with a Purpose and Mechanical Turk have substantially contributed to the research in natural language processing (NLP). Various NLP tasks utilize such resources to substitute for or supplement conventional lexical semantic resources and linguistically annotated corpora. These resources also provide an extensive body of texts from which valuable knowledge is mined. There are an increasing number of community efforts to link and maintain multiple linguistic resources. This book offers comprehensive coverage of CCLR-related topics, including their construction, utilization in NLP tasks, and interlinkage and management. Various Bachelor/Master/Ph.D. programs in natural language processing, computational linguistics, and knowledge discovery can use this book both as either main textbook or supplementary reading. The book also provides a valuable reference guide for researchers and professionals for the above topics.