本书是手册性的专著。本书的38章是分别由各个领域内的50位知名专家执笔的；本书几乎涵盖了计算语言学的所有领域，反映了当前计算语言学的最新成就，能使我们对计算语言学获得全面而系统的认识；本书各章写作风格一致，内容协调，浑然一体，特别适合对计算语言学感兴趣和刚入门的读者阅读。本书文笔流畅，使用有趣的实例来介绍艰深的技术问题，尤其适合文科背景的读者阅读。

本书是一部手册性的计算语言学专著，收录了包括语言学家、计算机专家和语言工程人员在内的50位学者撰写的综述性文章，全面地反映了国外计算语言学主要领域的最新成果，是我们了解国外计算语言学发展动向的一个窗口。

全书各章写作风格一致，内容协调，浑然一体，使用有趣的实例来介绍艰深的技术问题，而且尽量不使用繁难的数学公式，尤其适合文科背景的读者阅读。对于那些对计算语言学感兴趣和刚入门的读者而言，本书也是一本必备的参考书。

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

PART Ⅰ FUNDAMENTALS

 1.Phonology

 2.Morphology

 3.Lexicography

 4，Syntax

 5.Semantics

 6.Discourse

 7.Pragmatics and Dialogue

 8.Formal Grammars and Languages

 9.Complexity

PART Ⅱ PROCESSES，METHODS，AND RESOURCES

 1O.Text Segmentation

 11.Part-of-Speech Tagging

 12.Parsing

 13.Word-Sense Disambiguation

 14.Anaphora Resolution

 15.Natural Language Generation

 16.Speech Recognition

 17.Text-to-Speech Synthesis

 18.Finite-State Technology

 19.Statistical Methods

 20.Machine Learning

 21.Lexical Knowledge Acquisition

 22.Evaluation

 23.Sublanguages and Controlled Languages

 24.Corpus Linguistics

 25.Ontologies

 26.Tree-Adjoining Grammars

PART Ⅲ APPLICATIONS

 27.Machine Translation: General Overview，JOHN HUTCHINS

 28.Machine Translation: Latest Developments，HAROLD SOMERS

 29.Information Retrieval EVELYNE TZOUKERMANN，JUDITH L. KLAVANS，AND TOMEK STRZALKOWSKI

 30.Information Extraction RALPH GRISHMAN

 31.Question Answering，SANDA HARABAGIU AND DAN MOLDOVAN

 32.Text Summarization EDUARD HovY

 33.Term Extraction and Automatic Indexing，CHRISTIAN JACQUEMIN AND DIDIER BOURIGAULT

 34.Text Data Mining MARTI A. HEARST

 35.Natural Language Interaction ION ANDROUTSOPOULOS AND MARIA ARETOULAKI

 36.Natural Language in Multimodal and Multimedia Systems ELISABETH ANDR

 37.Natural Language Processing in Computer-Assisted Language Learning JOHN NERBONNE

 38.Multilingual On-Line Natural Language Processing

Notes on Contributors

Glossary

Index of Authors

Subject Index