Human language, music and a variety of animal vocalizations constitute ways of sonic
communication that exhibit remarkable structural complexity. While the complexities of …

This book offers a highly accessible introduction to natural language processing, the field
that supports a variety of language technologies, from predictive text and email filtering to …

This is the first book of its kind to provide a practical and student-friendly guide to corpus
linguistics that explains the nature of electronic data and how it can be collected and …

I examine what would be necessary to move part-of-speech tagging performance from its
current level of about 97.3% token accuracy (56% sentence accuracy) to close to 100 …

Cognitive linguists are bound by the cognitive commitment, which is the commitment to
providing a characterization of the general principles governing all aspects of human …

This article has multiple objectives. First of all, the fundamental concepts and challenges of
the research field known as Sentiment Analysis (SA) are presented. Secondly, a summary of …

The central issue of Newmeyer's new book is at the very core of language typological
research: how are similarities and differences among languages to be described and how …

This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing
(Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized …

This thesis deals with gradience in grammar, ie, with the fact that some linguistic structures
are not fully acceptable or unacceptable, but receive gradient linguistic judgments. The …

A number of disparate approaches to language, ranging from cognitive linguistics to
stochastic implementations of optimality theory, have challenged the classical distinction …