This comprehensive reference work provides an overview of the concepts, methodologies, and applications in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). Features contributions by the top researchers in the field, reflecting the work that is driving the discipline forwardIncludes an introduction to the major theoretical issues in these fields, as well as the central engineering applications that the work has producedPresents the major developments in an accessible way, explaining the close connection between scientific understanding of the computational properties of natural language and the creation of effective language technologiesServes as an invaluable state-of-the-art reference source for computational linguists and software engineers developing NLP applications in industrial research and development labs of software companies

这本综合性参考书概述了计算语言学和自然语言处理（NLP）中的概念、方法和应用。展示了该领域顶尖研究人员的贡献，反映了推动该学科发展的工作，包括介绍这些领域的主要理论问题，以及该工作所产生的中心工程应用，以一种易于理解的方式呈现主要发展，解释对自然语言计算特性的科学理解与有效语言技术的创造之间的密切联系，对于在工业研发实验室开发NLP应用程序的计算语言学家和软件工程师来说，这是一个非常宝贵的最先进的参考源软件公司