Dependency-based methods for syntactic parsing have become increasingly popular in natural language processing in recent years. This book gives a thorough introduction to the methods that are most widely used today.

The book also reports the latest research, presents the major outstanding challenges, and enables novices as well as experienced researchers to make novel contributions to this exciting area.

The book is intended for specialists and students in natural language processing, machine translation and computer-assisted translation. The 1990s saw a paradigm change in the use of corpus-driven methods in NLP.

This book is aimed at providing an overview of several aspects of semantic role labeling.

This handbook offers a thorough treatment of the science of linguistic annotation. Leaders in the field guide the reader through the process of modeling, creating an annotation language, building a corpus and evaluating it for correctness.

This book is primarily intended for researchers in information technology and language processing who would like to receive a state-of-the-art overview of the whole breadth of the new and vibrant field of language technology for cultural ...

The book is suitable as a reference, as well as a text for advanced courses in biomedical natural language processing and text mining.

Discourse Processing here is framed as marking up a text with structural descriptions on several levels, which can serve to support many language-processing or text-mining tasks.

The ten contributions in this volume look at MWEs in Bulgarian, English, French, German, Maori, Modern Greek, Romanian, Serbian, and Spanish.

This book gives a comprehensive view of state-of-the-art techniques that are used to build spoken dialogue systems.