Natural Language Processing : Semantic Aspects

"This book introduces the semantic aspects of natural language processing and its applications. Topics covered include: measuring word meaning similarity, multi-lingual querying, and parametric theory, named entity recognition, semantics, query language, the and the nature of language. The book also emphasizes the portions of mathematics needed to understand the discussed algorithms."-- Provided by publisher Front Cover......Page 1 Preface......Page 6 Contents......Page 10 PART I: Introduction......Page 14 CHAPTER 1: The Nature of Language......Page 16 PART II: Mathematics......Page 30 CHAPTER 2: Relations......Page 32 CHAPTER 3: Algebraic Structures......Page 56 CHAPTER 4: Linear Algebra......Page 81 CHAPTER 5: Conceptual Knowledge Processing......Page 107 PART III: Knowledge Representation for NLP......Page 132 CHAPTER 6: Measuring Word Meaning Similarity......Page 134 CHAPTER 7: Semantics and Query Languages......Page 142 CHAPTER 8: Multi-Lingual Querying and Parametric Theory......Page 175 PART IV: Knowledge Extraction and Engineering for NLP......Page 194 CHAPTER 9: Word Sense Disambiguation......Page 196 CHAPTER 10: Text Entailment......Page 226 CHAPTER 11: Text Segmentation......Page 244 CHAPTER 12: Text Summarization......Page 275 CHAPTER 13: Named Entity Recognition......Page 310 Bibliography......Page 324 Back Cover......Page 342