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999			_c74588 _d74588
020			_a9781627050111
082			_a 006.35 Em46 L _b103220
100			_aEmily M Bender
245			_aLinguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing: _b100 essentials from Morphology and syntax
250			_a1st ed
260			_aWashington _bMorgan and Claypool _c2013
300			_a166
500			_aMany NLP tasks have at their core a subtask of extracting the dependencies—who did what to whom—from natural language sentences. This task can be understood as the inverse of the problem solved in different ways by diverse human languages, namely, how to indicate the relationship between different parts of a sentence. Understanding how languages solve the problem can be extremely useful in both feature design and error analysis in the application of machine learning to NLP. Likewise, understanding cross-linguistic variation can be important for the design of MT systems and other multilingual applications. The purpose of this book is to present in a succinct and accessible fashion information about the morphological and syntactic structure of human languages that can be useful in creating more linguistically sophisticated, more language-independent, and thus more successful NLP systems. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments / Introduction/motivation / Morphology: Introduction / Morphophonology / Morphosyntax / Syntax: Introduction / Parts of speech / Heads, arguments, and adjuncts / Argument types and grammatical functions / Mismatches between syntactic position and semantic roles / Resources / Bibliography / Author's Biography / General Index / Index of Languages
505			_aMotivation, Morphology, Argument type grammatical function, etc.
650			_aGrammar, Comparative and general--Morphology
942			_cBK