ABSTRACT

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, and the nature of language. The book also emphasizes the portions of mathematics needed to under

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PART I: Introduction

chapter 1|14 pages

The Nature of Language

part |2 pages

PART II: Mathematics

chapter 2|24 pages

Relations

chapter 3|25 pages

Algebraic Structures

chapter 4|26 pages

Linear Algebra

part |2 pages

PART III: Knowledge Representation for NLP

chapter 6|8 pages

Measuring Word Meaning Similarity

chapter 7|33 pages

Semantics and Query Languages

part |2 pages

PART IV: Knowledge Extraction and Engineering for NLP

chapter 9|30 pages

Word Sense Disambiguation

chapter 10|18 pages

Text Entailment

chapter 11|31 pages

Text Segmentation

chapter 12|35 pages

Text Summarization

chapter 13|14 pages

Named Entity Recognition