Graph-based Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval

《Graph-based Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval》由会员上传分享，免费在线阅读，更多相关内容在学术论文-天天文库。

1、ThispageintentionallyleftblankGRAPH-BASEDNATURALLANGUAGEPROCESSINGANDINFORMATIONRETRIEVALGraphtheoryandthefieldsofnaturallanguageprocessingandinformationretrievalarewell-studieddisciplines.Traditionally,theseareashavebeenper-ceivedasdistinct,withdifferentalgorithms,differentapplications,anddi

2、fferentpotentialend-users.However,recentresearchhasshownthatthesedisciplinesareintimatelyconnected,withmuchvarietyinthewaythatnaturallanguageprocessingandinformationretrievalapplicationsfindefficientsolutionswithingraph-theoreticalframeworks.Thisbookisacomprehensivedescriptionoftheuseofgraph-b

3、asedalgo-rithmsfornaturallanguageprocessingandinformationretrieval.Itbringstogethertopicsasdiverseaslexicalsemantics,textsummarization,textmin-ing,ontologyconstruction,textclassification,andtextretrieval,whichareconnectedbythecommonunderlyingthemeoftheuseofgraph-theoreticalmethodsfortext-andi

4、nformation-processingtasks.Readerswillgainafirmunderstandingofthemajormethodsandapplicationsinnaturallanguagepro-cessingandinformationretrievalthatrelyongraph-basedrepresentationsandalgorithms.RadaMihalceaisanAssociateProfessorintheDepartmentofComputerSci-enceandEngineeringattheUniversityofNo

5、rthTexas,wheresheleadstheLanguageandInformationTechnologiesresearchgroup.In2009,shereceivedthePresidentialEarlyCareerAwardforScientistsandEngineers,awardedbyPresidentBarackObama.Sheservedontheeditorialboardofseveraljournals,includingComputationalLinguistics,JournalofNaturalLanguageEngineer-i

6、ng,andLanguageResourcesandEvaluations,andshecochairedtheEmpiricalMethodsinNaturalLanguageProcessingConferencein2009andtheAssocia-tionforComputationalLinguisticsConferencein2011.ShehasbeenpublishedinIEEEIntelligentSystems,JournalofNaturalLanguageEngineering,Jour-nalofMachineTranslation,Comput

7、ationalIntelligence,InternationalJournalofSemanticComputing,andArtificialIntelligenceMagazine.DragomirRadevisaProfessorintheSchoolofInformation,theDepart-mentofElectricalEngineeringandComputerScience,andtheDepartmentofLinguisticsattheUniversityofMic