Preslav Nakov

Min-Yen Kan

Pu-Jen Cheng

Wai Lam

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS 2010, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in December 2010. The 26 revised full papers and 31 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. All current aspects of information retrieval - in theory and practice - are addressed; the papers are organized in topical sections on information retrieval models, machine learning for information retrieval, user studies and evaluation, natural language processing for information retrieval, Web and question answering, and multimedia.

6th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2010, Taipei, Taiwan, December 1-3, 2010, Proceedings

Information Retrieval Technology

Marcos Zampieri

Language resources and computational models are becoming increasingly important for the study of language variation. A main challenge of this interdisciplinary field is that linguistics researchers may not be familiar with these helpful computational tools and many NLP researchers are often not familiar with language variation phenomena. This essential reference introduces researchers to the necessary computational models for processing similar languages, varieties, and dialects. In this book, leading experts tackle the inherent challenges of the field by balancing a thorough discussion of the theoretical background with a meaningful overview of state-of-the-art language technology. The book can be used in a graduate course, or as a supplementary text for courses on language variation, dialectology, and sociolinguistics or on computational linguistics and NLP. Part 1 covers the linguistic fundamentals of the field such as the question of status and language variation. Part 2 discusses data collection and pre-processing methods. Finally, Part 3 presents NLP applications such as speech processing, machine translation, and language-specific issues in Arabic and Chinese.

Preslav Nakov

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