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Books

The following books are related to the work proposed for my Masters project. They range from books on sociolinguistics and the philosophy of language, through to computational books on statistical natural language processing.


AuthorsTitle PublisherDate ISBN
Winograd, T.; Flores, F. Understanding Computers and Cognition Ablex Publishing Corporation 1986 0-89391-050-3
Winograd and Flores discuss conversation analysis in terms of networks of speech acts, particularly within companies. They introduce the idea that conversations can follow regular patterns of such speech acts.

Manning, Christopher; Schütze, Hirich Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing MIT Press 1999
(6th printing 2003)
0-262-13360-1
This book is the defacto standard text book for statistical NLP. It covers the foundations of probability and information theory, as well as basic linguistics. It also focuses on applications of statistical techniques in NLP - including corpus based work in general, and more specifically details techniques for language modelling, word sense disambiguation, grammars, tagging, parsing, clustering and text categorisation.

Joachims, Thorsten Learning to Classify Text Using Support Vector Machines : Methods, Theory and Algorithms Springer 1st edition
April 30, 2002
079237679X
This book provides a detailed description of the Support Vector Machines (SVMs) approach to learning text classifiers including training algorithms, transductive text classification, efficient performance estimation, and a statistical learning model of text classification.

Searle, John R Speech Acts : An Essay in the Philosophy of Language Cambridge University Press New Ed edition
January 2nd, 1969
052109626X
A book about Searle's Speech Act theory. The book is based on the philosophy of how words relate to the world.

Gillian Brown, George Yule, S. R. Anderson et al.(Series Editors) Discourse Analysis (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) Cambridge University Press July 28th, 1983 0521284759
This book provides an extensive overview of the many and diverse approaches to the study of discourse, from a variety of perspectives. The principal focus is to examine how any language produced by man, whether spoken or written, is used to communicate for a purpose in a context.