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1、pPrefaceTheneedforathoroughtextbookforStatisticalNaturalLanguagePro-cessinghardlyneedstobearguedforintheageofon-lineinformation,electroniccommunicationandtheWorldWideWeb.Increasingly,busi-nesses,governmentagenciesandindividualsareconfrontedwithlargeamoun
2、tsoftextthatarecriticalforworkingandliving,butnotwellenoughunderstoodtogettheenormousvalueoutofthemthattheypo-tentiallyhide.Atthesametime,theavailabilityoflargetextcorporahaschangedthescienti?capproachtolanguageinlinguisticsandcognitivescience.Phenomenat
3、hatwerenotdetectableorseemeduninterestinginstudyingtoydomainsandindividualsentenceshavemovedintothecenter?eldofwhatisconsideredimportanttoexplain.Whereasasrecentlyastheearly1990squantitativemethodswereseenassoinadequateforlinguisticsthatanimportanttextbo
4、okformathematicallinguisticsdidnotcovertheminanyway,theyarenowincreasinglyseenascrucialforlinguistictheory.Inthisbookwehavetriedtoachieveabalancebetweentheoryandpractice,andbetweenintuitionandrigor.Weattempttogroundap-proachesintheoreticalideas,bothmathe
5、maticalandlinguistic,butsi-multaneouslywetrytonotletthematerialgettoodry,andtrytoshowhowtheoreticalideashavebeenusedtosolvepracticalproblems.Todothis,we?rstpresentkeyconceptsinprobabilitytheory,statistics,infor-mationtheory,andlinguisticsinordertogivestu
6、dentsthefoundationstounderstandthe?eldandcontributetoit.Thenwedescribetheprob-lemsthatareaddressedinStatisticalNaturalLanguageProcessing(NLP),liketagginganddisambiguation,andaselectionofimportantworksoiipxxxPrefacethatstudentsaregroundedintheadvancesthat
7、havebeenmadeand,havingunderstoodthespecialproblemsthatlanguageposes,canmovethe?eldforward.Whenwedesignedthebasicstructureofthebook,wehadtomakeanumberofdecisionsaboutwhattoincludeandhowtoorganizethematerial.Akeycriterionwastokeepthebooktoamanageablesize.(
8、Wedidn'tentirelysucceed!)Thusthebookisnotacompleteintroductiontoprobabilitytheory,informationtheory,statistics,andthemanyotherareasofmathematicsthatareusedinStatisticalNLP.Wehavetriedtocoverthosetopicsthatseemmostimportant
