Class-tested and up-to-date textbook for introductory courses on information retrieval.

In this international collection of papers there is a wealth of knowledge on artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive science (CS) techniques applied to the problem of providing help systems mainly for the UNIX operating system. The research ...

Beginning in the mid-fifties and emanating largely form MIT, and approach wasdeveloped to linguistic theory and to the study of the structure of particular languages thatdiverges in many respects from modern linguistics. Although this approach is ...

Scientific knowledge grows at a phenomenal pace--but few books have had as lasting an impact or played as important a role in our modern world as The Mathematical Theory of Communication, published originally as a paper on communication theory in ...

In this fully updated second edition of the highly acclaimed Managing Gigabytes, authors Witten, Moffat, and Bell continue to provide unparalleled coverage of state-of-the-art techniques for compressing and indexing data. Whatever your field, if ...

Constraint-Based Grammar Formalisms provides the first rigorous mathematical and computational basis for this important area.

An introduction to statistical natural language processing (NLP). The text contains the theory and algorithms needed for building NLP tools. Topics covered include: mathematical and linguistic foundations; statistical methods; collocation finding ...

An explosion of Web-based language techniques, merging of distinct fields, availability of phone-based dialogue systems, and much more make this an exciting time in speech and language processing. The first of its kind to thoroughly cover ...

Natural languages, such as English, are difficult to understand not only because of the variety of forms that can be expressed, but also because of what is not explicity expressed. The problem of deciding what was implied by a text, of 'reading ...