BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
The People’s Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Language Resources
Iryna Gurevych and Jungi Kim (Eds.)
In Series: Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing, E. Hovy, M. Johnson and
G. Hirst (eds.)
2013, XXIV, 378 p. 86 illus., 16 illus. in color.
http://www.springer.com/978-3-642-35084-9
Collaboratively Constructed Language Resources (CCLRs) such as Wikipedia, Wiktionary,
Linked Open Data, and various resources developed using crowdsourcing techniques such as
Games with a Purpose and Mechanical Turk have substantially contributed to the research in
natural language processing (NLP). Various NLP tasks utilize such resources to substitute
for or supplement conventional lexical semantic resources and linguistically annotated
corpora. These resources also provide an extensive body of texts from which valuable
knowledge is mined. There are an increasing number of community efforts to link and
maintain multiple linguistic resources.
This book offers comprehensive coverage of CCLR-related topics, including their
construction, utilization in NLP tasks, and interlinkage and management. Various
Bachelor/Master/Ph.D. programs in natural language processing, computational linguistics,
and knowledge discovery can use this book both as either main textbook or supplementary
reading. The book also provides a valuable reference guide for researchers and
professionals for the above topics.
Keywords > Collaboratively Constructed Resource - Collective Intelligence / Human
Computation - Computational Linguistics - Language Resource - Natural Language Processing