Computational Linguistics
Subtitle: Applications
By: edited by Adam Przepiórkowski, Maciej Piasecki, Krzysztof Jassem, Piotr Fuglewicz
Contributors: Piasecki, Maciej; Jassem, Krzysztof; Fuglewicz, Piotr; SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence -- 458
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9783642343995
Subjects: Engineering; Translators (Computer programs); Language Translation and Linguistics; Computational intelligence; Artificial intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
Description: <p>The ever-growing popularity of Google over the recent decade has required a specific method of man-machine communication: human query should be short, whereas the machine answer may take a form of a wide range of documents. This type of communication has triggered a rapid development in the domain of Information Extraction, aimed at providing the asker with a  more precise information.</p><p>The recent success of intelligent personal assistants supporting users in searching or even extracting information and answers from large collections of electronic documents signals the onset of a new era in man-machine communication – we shall soon explain to our small devices what we need to know and expect valuable answers quickly and automatically delivered.</p><p>The progress of man-machine communication is accompanied by growth in the significance of applied Computational Linguistics – we need machines to understand much more from the language we speak naturally than it is the case of up-to-date search systems. Moreover, we need machine support in crossing language barriers that is necessary more and more often when facing the global character of the Web. </p><p>This books reports on the latest developments in the field. It contains 15 chapters written by researchers who aim at making linguistic theories work – for the better understanding between the man and the machine. <br></p>