Handbook of Natural Language Processing, 2/e (Hardcover)

The Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition presents practical tools and techniques for implementing natural language processing in computer systems. Along with removing outdated material, this edition updates every chapter and expands the content to include emerging areas, such as sentiment analysis.

New to the Second Edition

• Greater prominence of statistical approaches
• New applications section
• Broader multilingual scope to include Asian and European languages, along with English
• An actively maintained wiki (http://handbookofnlp.cse.unsw.edu.au) that provides online resources, supplementary information, and up-to-date developments

Divided into three sections, the book first surveys classical techniques, including both symbolic and empirical approaches. The second section focuses on statistical approaches in natural language processing. In the final section of the book, each chapter describes a particular class of application, from Chinese machine translation to information visualization to ontology construction to biomedical text mining. Fully updated with the latest developments in the field, this comprehensive, modern handbook emphasizes how to implement practical language processing tools in computational systems.

《自然語言處理手冊，第二版》提供了在計算機系統中實施自然語言處理的實用工具和技術。除了刪除過時的內容外，這一版更新了每一章節的內容，並擴展了內容，包括情感分析等新興領域。

《第二版的新內容》
- 更突出統計方法的重要性
- 新的應用範例
- 涵蓋更廣泛的多語言範圍，包括亞洲和歐洲語言以及英語
- 一個活躍維護的維基（http://handbookofnlp.cse.unsw.edu.au），提供在線資源、補充信息和最新發展

書籍分為三個部分，首先概述了傳統技術，包括符號和實證方法。第二部分專注於自然語言處理中的統計方法。在書籍的最後一部分，每一章節描述了一個特定的應用類別，從中文機器翻譯到信息可視化，再到本體論構建和生物醫學文本挖掘。這本全面且現代的手冊與該領域的最新發展保持同步，強調如何在計算系統中實施實用的語言處理工具。