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Title: Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition by Daniel Jurafsky, James H. Martin ISBN: 0-13-095069-6 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 26 January, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $82.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (15 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not bad but overrated: broad and shallow
Comment: GENERAL IDEA: Broad coverage but it lacks depth and details - particularly practical details. That is, the presentation is often too sketchy, mainly because it approaches too many subjects for its available space. I would not say that this book is strong on theory either. It is quite obvious that it avoids getting too formal and rigurous, probably to remain attractive for non-specialists too.
CASE STUDY: One specific problem I had with the Hidden Markov Models, that are supperficially presented (or spread I could say) in several separate sections of the book, so it's not been a pleasure trying to actually understand them properly and completely as a fundamental concept, to make them work in my particular application.
TITLE: The book's title IS misleading because it starts with "Speeech" and this book's main subject is not speech but (written) language. Actually there are only a few chapters on speech.
CONCLUSION: Get this book if you are looking for a good overview of the field. As soon as you need in-depth coverage of some particular topic you will look for additional resources.
Rating: 5
Summary: Most comprehensive introduction to NLP
Comment: This book is a feat for anybody interested in Natural Language Processing and probably the most comprehensive book on this subject. It provides an in-depth overview of the most important aspects of NLP from regular expressions to sense disambiguation, discourse, and machine translation. I particularly like the bibliographical and historical notes in each chapter, which provide additional historical context and lots of references.
The book is well written and carefully structured. However, it contains several silly typos (real-word errors) that are a bit embarrassing, considering the topic of the book.
This book does not cover the hardware components of speech recognition. It only provides an introduction to the computational aspects. Nevertheless, I don't think the title is misleading (as other reviewers claim), but the back-cover should mention that it doesn't cover the electronic and signal processing components of speech recognition.
Rating: 5
Summary: I looked for
Comment: something which I can use - I am a linguist - and found it immensly readable and useful
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Title: Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing by Christopher D. Manning, Hinrich Schütze ISBN: 0262133601 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 18 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Natural Language Understanding (2nd Edition) by Allen ISBN: 0805303340 Publisher: Pearson Addison Wesley Pub. Date: 03 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $62.81 |
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Title: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (2nd Edition) by Stuart J. Russell, Peter Norvig ISBN: 0137903952 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 20 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $86.00 |
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Title: Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm and System Development by Xuedong Huang, Alex Acero, Hsiao-Wuen Hon ISBN: 0130226165 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 25 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $89.00 |
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Title: Machine Learning by Tom M. Mitchell ISBN: 0070428077 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $166.00 |
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