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"Today, large corpora consisting of hundreds of millions or even billions of words, along with new empirical and statistical methods for organizing and analyzing these data, promise new insights into the use of language. Already, the data extracted from these large corpora reveal that language use is more flexible and complex than most rule-based systems have tried to account for, providing a basis for progress in the performance of natural language processing systems. ""Using Large Corpora"" identifies these new data-oriented methods and describes the potential results that the use of large corpora offers. The research described shows that the new methods may offer solutions to key issues of acquisition (automatically identifying and coding information), coverage (accounting for all of the phenomena in a given domain), robustness (accommodating ""real data"" that may be corrupt or not accounted for in the model), and extensibility (applying the model and data to a new domain, text, or problem). There are chapters on lexical issues, issues in syntax, and translation topics, as well as discussions of the ""statistics-based"" vs ""rule-based"" debate."

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Author:   Susan Armstrong (Issco) ,  Maurice V. Wilkes
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:   MIT Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.90cm
Weight:   0.748kg
ISBN:  

9780262510820

ISBN 10:   0262510820
Pages:   359
Publication Date:   02 November 1994
Recommended Age:   From 18
Audience:   Adult education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Further / Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
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Maurice Wilkes retired from his post at Cambridge University in 1980, when he became a Senior Consulting Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation in Massachusetts and Adjunct Professor at MIT.

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