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AB -  Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing: 100 Essentials from Morphology and Syntax Emily M. Bender (University of Washington) Morgan & Claypool (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, edited by Graeme Hirst, volume 20), 2013, xvii+166 pp; paperbound, ISBN 978-1-62705-011-1, $40.00; e-book, ISBN 978-1-62705-012-8, $30.00 or by subscription Reviewed by Chris Dyer Carnegie Mellon University The phenomenal success of machine learning in engineering natural language applications has led to a curious situation: Natural language processing practitioners who were trained in the last 15 to 20 years may have established a quite successful career in this area with only a haphazard knowledge of the science of natural languages. The premise of the new volume by Emily M. Bender is that greater awareness of linguistics will enable continued technical progress, particularly as language applications are required to perform more intelligent processing in more languages. This book is not beholden to any particular theoretical program. Rather, it is a survey of the morphological and syntactic means by which different languages express meaning, anchored by clear and effective examples from typologically diverse languages. Eschewing theorizing to stay close to data permits a remarkably wide range of linguistic phenomena to be covered, and it 
TI - Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing: 100 Essentials from Morphology and Syntax Emily M. Bender (University of Washington) Morgan & Claypool (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, edited by Graeme Hirst, volume 20), 2013, xvii+166 pp; paperbound, ISBN 978-1-62705-011-1, $40.00; e-book, ISBN 978-1-62705-012-8, $30.00 or by subscription
JF - Computational Linguistics
DO - 10.1162/COLI_r_00212
DA - 2015-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/mit-press/linguistic-fundamentals-for-natural-language-processing-100-essentials-N9WLRsVEHB
SP - 153
EP - 155
VL - 41
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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