Formal Analysis for Natural Language Processing: A Handbook

The field of natural language processing (NLP) is one of the most important and useful application areas of artificial intelligence. NLP is now rapidly evolving, as new methods and toolsets converge with an ever-expanding wealth of available data. This state-of-the-art handbook addresses all aspects of formal analysis for natural language processing. Following a review of the field's history, it systematically introduces readers to the rule-based model, statistical model, neural network model, and pre-training model in natural language processing.

At a time characterized by the steady and vigorous growth of natural language processing, this handbook provides a highly accessible introduction and much-needed reference guide to both the theory and method of NLP. It can be used for individual study, as the textbook for courses on natural language processing or computational linguistics, or as a supplement to courses on artificial intelligence, and offers a valuable asset for researchers, practitioners, lecturers, graduate and undergraduate students alike.

自然語言處理（NLP）領域是人工智慧最重要且最有用的應用領域之一。隨著新的方法和工具集與日益豐富的可用數據相結合，NLP正在快速發展。這本最新的手冊涵蓋了自然語言處理的所有形式分析方面。在回顧該領域的歷史之後，它系統地介紹了基於規則的模型、統計模型、神經網絡模型和預訓練模型在自然語言處理中的應用。

在自然語言處理持續而強勁增長的時代，這本手冊提供了一個非常易於理解的介紹，並提供了對NLP的理論和方法的必要參考指南。它可以用於個人學習，作為自然語言處理或計算語言學課程的教材，或作為人工智慧課程的補充教材，並為研究人員、從業人員、講師、研究生和本科生提供了寶貴的資源。

Feng Zhiwei is a computational linguist and senior research fellow at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, Ministry of Education, China. He has a broad and extensive background in linguistics, mathematics and computer science, and has been engaged in interdisciplinary research in linguistics, mathematics and computer science for more than 50 years. One of the first natural language processing and computational linguistics scholars in China, he has published more than 30 books and more than 400 papers in China and abroad. He is the winner of the NLPCC (Natural Language Processing & Chinese Computing) Distinguished Achievement Award of the CCF (China Computer Federation) in 2018.

馮志偉是中國教育部應用語言學研究所的計算語言學家和高級研究員。他在語言學、數學和計算機科學方面具有廣泛而豐富的背景，並且已從事跨學科的語言學、數學和計算機科學研究超過50年。作為中國最早的自然語言處理和計算語言學學者之一，他在國內外發表了30多本書籍和400多篇論文。他是2018年中國計算機學會（CCF）自然語言處理與中文計算（NLPCC）杰出成就獎的獲獎者。