Evaluating Natural Language Processing Systems: An Analysis and Review

✍ Scribed by Karen Sparck Jones, Julia R. Galliers (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1083
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This comprehensive state-of-the-art book is the first devoted to the important and timely issue of evaluating NLP systems. It addresses the whole area of NLP system evaluation, including aims and scope, problems and methodology.
The authors provide a wide-ranging and careful analysis of evaluation concepts, reinforced with extensive illustrations; they relate systems to their environments and develop a framework for proper evaluation. The discussion of principles is completed by a detailed review of practice and strategies in the field, covering both systems for specific tasks, like translation, and core language processors. The methodology lessons drawn from the analysis and review are applied in a series of example cases. A comprehensive bibliography, a subject index, and term glossary are included.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction....Pages 1-2
The framework: Scope and concepts....Pages 3-63
NLP evaluation: Work and strategies....Pages 65-192
Strategies for Evaluation....Pages 193-218

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Information Storage and Retrieval; Language Translation and Linguistics