part I. Introduction -- part II. Mathematics -- part III. Knowledge representation for NLP -- part IV. Knowledge extraction and engineering for NLP.
"This book introduces the semantic aspects of natural language processing and its applications. Topics covered include: measuring word meaning similarity, multi-lingual querying, and parametric theory, named entity recognition, semantics, query language, the and the nature of language. The book also emphasizes the portions of mathematics needed to understand the discussed algorithms. "-- Provided by publisher..