Statistical approaches to processing natural language text have become dominant in recent years. This foundational text is the first comprehensive introduction to statistical natural language processing (NLP) to appear. The book contains all the theory and algorithms needed for building NLP tools. It provides broad but rigorous coverage of mathematical and linguistic foundations, as well as detailed discussion of statistical methods, allowing students and researchers to construct their own implementations. The book covers collocation finding, word sense disambiguation, probabilistic parsing, information retrieval, and other applications.

近年来，处理自然语言文本的统计方法已成为主流。这基础文本是第一个全面介绍统计自然语言处理（NLP）出现。这本书包含了构建NLP工具所需的所有理论和算法。它提供了广泛但严格的数学和语言基础，以及统计方法的详细讨论，允许学生和研究人员构建自己的实现。这本书涵盖了搭配发现、词义消歧、概率句法分析、信息检索和其他应用。