Natural Language Processing For Historical Texts

Author : Michael Piotrowski
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781608459476

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Natural Language Processing for Historical Texts by Michael Piotrowski Pdf

More and more historical texts are becoming available in digital form. Digitization of paper documents is motivated by the aim of preserving cultural heritage and making it more accessible, both to laypeople and scholars. As digital images cannot be searched for text, digitization projects increasingly strive to create digital text, which can be searched and otherwise automatically processed, in addition to facsimiles. Indeed, the emerging field of digital humanities heavily relies on the availability of digital text for its studies. Together with the increasing availability of historical texts in digital form, there is a growing interest in applying natural language processing (NLP) methods and tools to historical texts. However, the specific linguistic properties of historical texts -- the lack of standardized orthography, in particular -- pose special challenges for NLP. This book aims to give an introduction to NLP for historical texts and an overview of the state of the art in this field. The book starts with an overview of methods for the acquisition of historical texts (scanning and OCR), discusses text encoding and annotation schemes, and presents examples of corpora of historical texts in a variety of languages. The book then discusses specific methods, such as creating part-of-speech taggers for historical languages or handling spelling variation. A final chapter analyzes the relationship between NLP and the digital humanities. Certain recently emerging textual genres, such as SMS, social media, and chat messages, or newsgroup and forum postings share a number of properties with historical texts, for example, nonstandard orthography and grammar, and profuse use of abbreviations. The methods and techniques required for the effective processing of historical texts are thus also of interest for research in other domains. Table of Contents: Introduction / NLP and Digital Humanities / Spelling in Historical Texts / Acquiring Historical Texts / Text Encoding and Annotation Schemes / Handling Spelling Variation / NLP Tools for Historical Languages / Historical Corpora / Conclusion / Bibliography

Author : Michael Piotrowski
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031021466

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Natural Language Processing for Historical Texts by Michael Piotrowski Pdf

More and more historical texts are becoming available in digital form. Digitization of paper documents is motivated by the aim of preserving cultural heritage and making it more accessible, both to laypeople and scholars. As digital images cannot be searched for text, digitization projects increasingly strive to create digital text, which can be searched and otherwise automatically processed, in addition to facsimiles. Indeed, the emerging field of digital humanities heavily relies on the availability of digital text for its studies. Together with the increasing availability of historical texts in digital form, there is a growing interest in applying natural language processing (NLP) methods and tools to historical texts. However, the specific linguistic properties of historical texts -- the lack of standardized orthography, in particular -- pose special challenges for NLP. This book aims to give an introduction to NLP for historical texts and an overview of the state of the art in this field. The book starts with an overview of methods for the acquisition of historical texts (scanning and OCR), discusses text encoding and annotation schemes, and presents examples of corpora of historical texts in a variety of languages. The book then discusses specific methods, such as creating part-of-speech taggers for historical languages or handling spelling variation. A final chapter analyzes the relationship between NLP and the digital humanities. Certain recently emerging textual genres, such as SMS, social media, and chat messages, or newsgroup and forum postings share a number of properties with historical texts, for example, nonstandard orthography and grammar, and profuse use of abbreviations. The methods and techniques required for the effective processing of historical texts are thus also of interest for research in other domains. Table of Contents: Introduction / NLP and Digital Humanities / Spelling in Historical Texts / Acquiring Historical Texts / Text Encoding and Annotation Schemes / Handling Spelling Variation / NLP Tools for Historical Languages / Historical Corpora / Conclusion / Bibliography

Author : Dan Jurafsky
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8131716724

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Speech & Language Processing by Dan Jurafsky Pdf

Author : Antonio Zampolli,Nicoletta Calzolari,Martha Palmer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780585359588

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Current Issues in Computational Linguistics: In Honour of Don Walker by Antonio Zampolli,Nicoletta Calzolari,Martha Palmer Pdf

With this volume in honour of Don Walker, Linguistica Computazionale con tinues the series of special issues dedicated to outstanding personalities who have made a significant contribution to the progress of our discipline and maintained a special collaborative relationship with our Institute in Pisa. I take the liberty of quoting in this preface some of the initiatives Pisa and Don Walker have jointly promoted and developed during our collaboration, because I think that they might serve to illustrate some outstanding features of Don's personality, in particular his capacity for identifying areas of potential convergence among the different scientific communities within our field and establishing concrete forms of coop eration. These initiatives also testify to his continuous and untiring work, dedi cated to putting people into contact and opening up communication between them, collecting and disseminating information, knowledge and resources, and creating shareable basic infrastructures needed for progress in our field. Our collaboration began within the Linguistics in Documentation group of the FID and continued in the framework of the !CCL (International Committee for Computational Linguistics). In 1982 this collaboration was strengthened when, at CO LING in Prague, I was invited by Don to join him in the organization of a series of workshops with participants of the various communities interested in the study, development, and use of computational lexica.

Author : Kevin Bretonnel Cohen,Dina Demner-Fushman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789027271068

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Biomedical Natural Language Processing by Kevin Bretonnel Cohen,Dina Demner-Fushman Pdf

Biomedical Natural Language Processing is a comprehensive tour through the classic and current work in the field. It discusses all subjects from both a rule-based and a machine learning approach, and also describes each subject from the perspective of both biological science and clinical medicine. The intended audience is readers who already have a background in natural language processing, but a clear introduction makes it accessible to readers from the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology, as well. The book is suitable as a reference, as well as a text for advanced courses in biomedical natural language processing and text mining.

Author : Vladimir Sukhomlin,Elena Zubareva
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030782733

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Modern Information Technology and IT Education by Vladimir Sukhomlin,Elena Zubareva Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Modern Information Technology and IT Education, held in Moscow, Russia, in November 2017. The 30 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 126 submissions. The papers are organized according to the following topics: IT-education: methodology, methodological support; e-learning and IT in education; educational resources and best practices of IT-education; research and development in the field of new IT and their applications; scientific software in education and science; school education in computer science and ICT; economic informatics.

Author : Anne Kao,Steve R. Poteet
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781846287541

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Natural Language Processing and Text Mining by Anne Kao,Steve R. Poteet Pdf

Natural Language Processing and Text Mining not only discusses applications of Natural Language Processing techniques to certain Text Mining tasks, but also the converse, the use of Text Mining to assist NLP. It assembles a diverse views from internationally recognized researchers and emphasizes caveats in the attempt to apply Natural Language Processing to text mining. This state-of-the-art survey is a must-have for advanced students, professionals, and researchers.

Author : Zygmunt Vetulani,Joseph Mariani
Publisher : Springer
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319089584

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Human Language Technology Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics by Zygmunt Vetulani,Joseph Mariani Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Language and Technology Conference: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, LTC 2011, held in Poznan, Poland, in November 2011. The 44 revised and in many cases substantially extended papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 111 submissions. The focus of the papers is on the following topics: speech, parsing, computational semantics, text analysis, text annotation, language resources: general issues, language resources: ontologies and Wordnets and machine translation.

Author : Abdelhak Belhi,Abdelaziz Bouras,Abdulaziz Khalid Al-Ali,Abdul Hamid Sadka
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030667771

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Data Analytics for Cultural Heritage by Abdelhak Belhi,Abdelaziz Bouras,Abdulaziz Khalid Al-Ali,Abdul Hamid Sadka Pdf

This book considers the challenges related to the effective implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies to the cultural heritage digitization process. Particular focus is placed on improvements to the data acquisition stage, as well as the data enrichment and curation stages, using advanced artificial intelligence techniques and tools. An emphasis is placed on recent applications related to deep learning for visual recognition, generative models, natural language processing, and super resolution. The book is a valuable reference for researchers working in the multidisciplinary field of cultural heritage and AI, as well as professional experts in the art and culture domains, such as museums, libraries, and historic sites and buildings. Reports on techniques and methods that leverage AI and machine learning and their impact on the digitization of cultural heritage; Addresses challenges of improving data acquisition, enrichment and management processes; Highlights contributions from international researchers from diverse fields and subject areas.

Author : Ankur A. Patel,Ajay Uppili Arasanipalai
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781492062547

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Applied Natural Language Processing in the Enterprise by Ankur A. Patel,Ajay Uppili Arasanipalai Pdf

NLP has exploded in popularity over the last few years. But while Google, Facebook, OpenAI, and others continue to release larger language models, many teams still struggle with building NLP applications that live up to the hype. This hands-on guide helps you get up to speed on the latest and most promising trends in NLP. With a basic understanding of machine learning and some Python experience, you'll learn how to build, train, and deploy models for real-world applications in your organization. Authors Ankur Patel and Ajay Uppili Arasanipalai guide you through the process using code and examples that highlight the best practices in modern NLP. Use state-of-the-art NLP models such as BERT and GPT-3 to solve NLP tasks such as named entity recognition, text classification, semantic search, and reading comprehension Train NLP models with performance comparable or superior to that of out-of-the-box systems Learn about Transformer architecture and modern tricks like transfer learning that have taken the NLP world by storm Become familiar with the tools of the trade, including spaCy, Hugging Face, and fast.ai Build core parts of the NLP pipeline--including tokenizers, embeddings, and language models--from scratch using Python and PyTorch Take your models out of Jupyter notebooks and learn how to deploy, monitor, and maintain them in production

Author : Shashi Narayan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031021732

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Deep Learning Approaches to Text Production by Shashi Narayan Pdf

Text production has many applications. It is used, for instance, to generate dialogue turns from dialogue moves, verbalise the content of knowledge bases, or generate English sentences from rich linguistic representations, such as dependency trees or abstract meaning representations. Text production is also at work in text-to-text transformations such as sentence compression, sentence fusion, paraphrasing, sentence (or text) simplification, and text summarisation. This book offers an overview of the fundamentals of neural models for text production. In particular, we elaborate on three main aspects of neural approaches to text production: how sequential decoders learn to generate adequate text, how encoders learn to produce better input representations, and how neural generators account for task-specific objectives. Indeed, each text-production task raises a slightly different challenge (e.g, how to take the dialogue context into account when producing a dialogue turn, how to detect and merge relevant information when summarising a text, or how to produce a well-formed text that correctly captures the information contained in some input data in the case of data-to-text generation). We outline the constraints specific to some of these tasks and examine how existing neural models account for them. More generally, this book considers text-to-text, meaning-to-text, and data-to-text transformations. It aims to provide the audience with a basic knowledge of neural approaches to text production and a roadmap to get them started with the related work. The book is mainly targeted at researchers, graduate students, and industrials interested in text production from different forms of inputs.

Author : Magali Paquot,Stefan Th. Gries
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030462161

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A Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics by Magali Paquot,Stefan Th. Gries Pdf

This handbook is a comprehensive practical resource on corpus linguistics. It features a range of basic and advanced approaches, methods and techniques in corpus linguistics, from corpus compilation principles to quantitative data analyses. The Handbook is organized in six Parts. Parts I to III feature chapters that discuss key issues and the know-how related to various topics around corpus design, methods and corpus types. Parts IV-V aim to offer a user-friendly introduction to the quantitative analysis of corpus data: for each statistical technique discussed, chapters provide a practical guide with R and come with supplementary online material. Part VI focuses on how to write a corpus linguistic paper and how to meta-analyze corpus linguistic research. The volume can serve as a course book as well as for individual study. It will be an essential reading for students of corpus linguistics as well as experienced researchers who want to expand their knowledge of the field.

Author : Aarne Ranta,Bengt Nordström
Publisher : Springer
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540852872

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Advances in Natural Language Processing by Aarne Ranta,Bengt Nordström Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, GoTAL 2008, Gothenburg, Sweden, August 2008. The 44 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 107 submissions. The papers address all current issues in computational linguistics and monolingual and multilingual intelligent language processing - theory, methods and applications.

Author : Peter Jackson,Isabelle Moulinier
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789027292445

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Natural Language Processing for Online Applications by Peter Jackson,Isabelle Moulinier Pdf

This text covers the technologies of document retrieval, information extraction, and text categorization in a way which highlights commonalities in terms of both general principles and practical concerns. It assumes some mathematical background on the part of the reader, but the chapters typically begin with a non-mathematical account of the key issues. Current research topics are covered only to the extent that they are informing current applications; detailed coverage of longer term research and more theoretical treatments should be sought elsewhere. There are many pointers at the ends of the chapters that the reader can follow to explore the literature. However, the book does maintain a strong emphasis on evaluation in every chapter both in terms of methodology and the results of controlled experimentation.

Author : Monica Berti
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110596991

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Digital Classical Philology by Monica Berti Pdf

Thanks to the digital revolution, even a traditional discipline like philology has been enjoying a renaissance within academia and beyond. Decades of work have been producing groundbreaking results, raising new research questions and creating innovative educational resources. This book describes the rapidly developing state of the art of digital philology with a focus on Ancient Greek and Latin, the classical languages of Western culture. Contributions cover a wide range of topics about the accessibility and analysis of Greek and Latin sources. The discussion is organized in five sections concerning open data of Greek and Latin texts; catalogs and citations of authors and works; data entry, collection and analysis for classical philology; critical editions and annotations of sources; and finally linguistic annotations and lexical databases. As a whole, the volume provides a comprehensive outline of an emergent research field for a new generation of scholars and students, explaining what is reachable and analyzable that was not before in terms of technology and accessibility.