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Springer Nature Customer Service Center LLC Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora by Edited by S. Armstrong Edited by Kenneth W. Church Edited by Pierre Isabelle Edited by Sandra Manzi Edited by Evelyne Tzoukermann Edited by David Yarowsky
ABOUT THIS BOOK This book is intended for researchers who want to keep abreast of cur rent developments in corpus-based natural language processing. It is not meant as an introduction to this field; for readers who need one several entry-level texts are available including those of Church and Mercer 1993; Charniak 1993; Jelinek 1997. This book captures the essence of a series of highly successful work shops held in the last few years. The response in 1993 to the initial Workshop on Very Large Corpora Columbus Ohio was so enthusias tic that we were encouraged to make it an annual event. The following year we staged the Second Workshop on Very Large Corpora in Ky oto. As a way of managing these annual workshops we then decided to register a special interest group called SIGDAT with the Association for Computational Linguistics. The demand for international forums on corpus-based NLP has been expanding so rapidly that in 1995 SIGDAT was led to organize not only the Third Workshop on Very Large Corpora Cambridge Mass. but also a complementary workshop entitled From Texts to Tags Dublin. Obviously the success of these workshops was in some measure a re flection of the growing popularity of corpus-based methods in the NLP community. But first and foremost it was due to the fact that the work shops attracted so many high-quality papers.show more