1. At the interface of computational linguistics and statistics.
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Martinez, Angel and Martinez, Wendy
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COMPUTATIONAL linguistics , *COMPUTATIONAL statistics , *INFORMATION retrieval , *MACHINE learning , *CONFLICT of interests , *DATA analysis - Abstract
Computational linguistics encompasses a broad range of ideas and research areas, and only a brief introduction is possible here. We chose to include areas in computational linguistics where statisticians can contribute, hoping to provide inspiration to the reader. We describe three main aspects of this discipline-formal languages, information retrieval, and machine learning. These support the overarching goal, which is the representation and analysis of meaning from unstructured text. We then provide an example where text analysis has been applied to unstructured text fields in survey records and conclude with some applications and computational resources. WIREs Comput Stat 2015, 7:258-274. doi: 10.1002/wics.1353 For further resources related to this article, please visit the . Conflict of interest: The authors have declared no conflicts of interest for this article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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