Computational aids for Zulu natural language processing

Natural Language Processing as a Computational Problem*

ing away from the descriptive adequacy of this representation (in English, verbs do not agree in gender with their subjects), we can see how the feature structure above has structure sharing: the paths X2|inflection and X2|subject|inflection converge at the same node and from this node stems a substructure representing the inflectional properties shared by noun and verb. It is important to insi...

Natural Language Processing Challenges in HIV/AIDS Clinic Notes

In recent years, significant progress has been achieved toward increased structured data entry using standardized health care terminologies. Concurrently, the value of narrative as the clinician's rich description of the encounter and source of vital information has been reaffirmed. Natural language processing (NLP) offers a strategy for integrating these approaches to provide structured report...

Language Impairment in Zulu

The Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing

ing over the particular type of feature spaces (such as Euclidean space in the example of Figure 6.1), the similarity between a new instance X and all examples Y in memory is computed using a similarity metric (that actually measures distance) Δ(X, Y). Classification works by assigning the most frequent class within the k most similar example(s) as the class of a new test instance. The most bas...

How Language Processing Constrains (Computational) Natural Language Processing: A Cognitive Perspective

In this paper I aim at sketching out in bare outline a new model/framework of language processing with its implications for natural language processing. Research in theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics and mathematical linguistics has delineated the ways natural language can be represented and modeled. Studies in cognitive (neuro)science, on the other hand, have shown how language...