Re: Recommended Sources?
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Date: 10/22/04
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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 23:21:55 -0400
"Jessamyn Hodge" <jessamyn@mit.edu> wrote in message
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> Oi -
>
> Completely and utterly new to Lisp, but it (or Prolog) has been
recommended
> as the language to write/design a lexical analysis tool that I need
(because
> apparently it doesn't exist, or not in the form that I need it to
analyze).
> Pattern matching, et al. Wandered over to Quantum Books (cambridge) but I
> saw no O'reilly book (the standard for when I need a quick/dirty approach
to
> a language) on prolog or lisp. Recommendations for learning
not-in-classroom
> (that requiring more time than I currently have)?
>
> (Im digging through Blackwell's "Programming for Linguistics: Perl" atm to
> see if that has any answers)
>
> Much thanks.
>
> Jessamyn
>
Besides the other couple of good suggestions you have received from other
responders I would also recommend that you try NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
IN LISP: AN INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS by Gerald Gazdar and
Chris Mellish, Addison-Wesley 1989. A bit old IF compared to some of the
more modern Lisp books but it is very domain-specific as to what you are
looking for.
The same authors have written a Prolog variation of the book as well:
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING IN PROLOG: AN INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTATIONAL
LINGUISTICS by Gerald Gazdar and Chris Mellish, Addison-Wesley 1989.
Michael Covington's book is also a good bet: NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FOR
PROLOG PROGRAMMERS, Prentice-Hall 1993.
A friendly piece of advice (if I may) is that you should make sure that you
understand the theory before you try to implement NLP. In other words,
computational linguistics, statistical or non-statistical processing, etc. I
have seen people dive feet first into the NLP only to drown in
augmented-tree grammars etc. without a clue. Lisp is the design and
implementation tool but not the underlying linguistics theoretical
formalism.
Panos C. Lekkas
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