Second edition. — Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009. — 988 p.
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Speech and Language Processing is a general textbook on natural language processing,
with an excellent coverage of the area and an unusually broad scope of topics. It includes
statistical and symbolic approaches to NLP, as well as the main methods of speech
processing.
Regular Expressions and Automata
Words and Transducers
N-grams
Part-of-Speech Tagging
Hidden Markov and Maximum Entropy Models
Phonetics
Speech Synthesis
Automatic Speech Recognition
Speech Recognition: Advanced Topics
Computational Phonology
Formal Grammars of English
Syntactic Parsing
Statistical Parsing
Features and Unification
Language and Complexity
The Representation of Meaning
Computational Semantics
Lexical Semantics
Computational Lexical Semantics
Computational Discourse
Information Extraction
Question Answering and Summarization
Dialog and Conversational Agents
Machine Translation