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Today, large corpora consisting of hundreds of millions or even billions of words,along with new empirical and statistical methods for organizing and analyzing these data, promisenew insights into the use of language. Already, the data extracted from these large corpora revealthat language use is more flexible and complex than most rule-based systems have tried to accountfor, providing a basis for progress in the performance of Natural Language Processing systems. UsingLarge Corpora...
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Today, large corpora consisting of hundreds of millions or even billions of words,along with new empirical and statistical methods for organizing and analyzing these data, promisenew insights into the use of language. Already, the data extracted from these large corpora revealthat language use is more flexible and complex than most rule-based systems have tried to accountfor, providing a basis for progress in the performance of Natural Language Processing systems. UsingLarge Corpora identifies these new data-oriented methods and describes the potential results thatthe use of large corpora offers.The research described shows that the new methods may offersolutions to key issues of acquisition (automatically identifying and coding information), coverage(accounting for all of the phenomena in a given domain), robustness (accommodating "real data" thatmay be corrupt or not accounted for in the model), and extensibility (applying the model and data toa new domain, text, or problem). There are chapters on lexical issues, issues in syntax, andtranslation topics, as well discussions of the "statistics-based" vs. "rule-based" debate.ACL-MITSeries in Natural Language Processing