Thirty-eight chapters, comissioned from experts all over the world, describe 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 and aims to meet the needs of post-doctoral workers and others embarking on computational language research. Part III surveys current applications.This book is a state-of-the-art reference to one of the most active and productive fields in linguistics. It will be of interest and practical use to a wide range of linguists, as well as to researchers in such fields as informatics, artificial intelligence, language engineering, and cognitive science.

Table of Contents:
Part I: Fundamentals 1: Steven Bird: Phonology 2: Harald Trost: Morphology 3: Patrick Hanks: Computational Lexicography 4: Ronald M. Kaplan: Syntax 5: Shalom Lappin: Semantics 6: Allan Ramsay: Discourse 7: Geoffrey Leech and Martin Weisser: Pragmatics and Dialogue 8: Carlos Martín-Vide: Formal Grammars and Languages 9: Bob Carpenter: Complexity Part II: Processes, Methods, and Resources 10: Andrei Mikheev: Text Segmentation 11: Atro Voutilainen: Part-of-Speech Tagging 12: John Carroll: Parsing 13: Mark Stevenson and Yorick Wilks: Word-Sense Disambiguation 14: Ruslan Mitkov: Anaphora Resolution 15: John Bateman and Michael Zock: Natural Language Generation 16: Lori Lamel and Jean-Luc Gauvain: Speech Recognition 17: Thierry Dutoit and Yannis Stylianou: Text-to-Speech Synthesis 18: Lauri Karttunen: Finite-State Technology 19: Christer Samuelsson: Statistical Methods 20: Raymond J. Mooney: Machine Learning 21: Yuji Matsumoto: Lexical Knowledge Acquisition 22: L. Hirschman and I. Mani: Evaluation 23: Richard I. Kittredge: Sublanguages and Controlled Languages 24: Tony McEnery: Corpora 25: Piek Vossen: Ontologies 26: Aravind K. Joshi: Tree-Adjoining Grammars Part III: Applications 27: John Hutchins: Machine Translation: General Overview 28: Harold Somers: Machine Translation: Latest Developments 29: Evelyne Tzoukermann, Judith L. Klavans, and Tomek Strzalkowski: Information Retrieval 30: Ralph Grishman: Information Extraction 31: Sanda Harabagiu and Dan Moldovan: Question Answering 32: Eduard Hovy: Text Summarization 33: Christian Jacquemin and Didier Bourigault: Term Extraction and Automatic Indexing 34: Marti A. Hearst: Text Data Mining 35: Ion Androutsopoulos and Maria Aretoulaki: Natural Language Interaction 36: Elisabeth André: Natural Language in Multimodal and Multimedia Systems 37: John Nerbonne: Natural Language Processing in Computer-Aided Language Learning 38: Gregory Grefenstette and Frédérique Segond: Multilingual On-Line Natural Language Processing