Linguistics

Describes major concepts, methods and applications in computational linguistics. Part I, Linguistic Fundamentals, provides an overview of the field suitable for senior undergraduates and non-specialists from other fields of linguistics and related disciplines. Part II describes current tasks, techniques and tools in Natural Language Processing. Part III surveys current applications.

This comprehensive reference work provides an overview of the concepts, methodologies, and applications in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP).

Based on a course on Natural Language Processing taught by the author at IMT Atlantique for over a decade, this textbook considers three points of view corresponding to three different disciplines: the fundamental notions of Linguistics, symbolic Artificial Intelligence methods (based on knowledge representation languages) and statistical methods (involving both legacy machine learning and deep learning tools).