Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 15 mm x 22 mm
Reihe: Language and Computers
The IBM/Lancaster Approach
Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 15 mm x 22 mm
Reihe: Language and Computers
ISBN: 978-90-5183-478-9
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi
Most programs that now exist for this purpose are not very successful at finding the correct analysis for everyday sentences. In contrast, the programs described here make use of a more successful statistically-driven approach.
Our book is, first, a record of a five-year research collaboration between IBM and Lancaster University. Large numbers of real-world sentences were "fed into the memory" of a program for grammatical analysis (including a detailed grammar of English) and processed by statistical methods. The idea is to single out the correct parse, among all those offered by the grammar, on the basis of probabilities.
Second, this is a "how-to" book, showing how to build and implement a statistically-driven broad-coverage grammar of English. We even supply our own grammar, with the necessary statistical algorithms, and with the knowledge needed to prepare a very large set (or corpus) of sentences so that it can be used to guide the statistical processing of the grammar's rules.