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This chapter introduces the field of natural language processing to the computer scientist or logician outside of the field. We first discuss some concepts from the field of linguistics, which focuses on the language half of the NLP equation, then move on to some of the common computational methods used to process and understand language. No previous knowledge of NLP is assumed.
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Thompson, C.A. (2000). A Brief Introduction to Natural Language Processing for Non-linguists. In: Cussens, J., Džeroski, S. (eds) Learning Language in Logic. LLL 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1925. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-40030-3_2
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