Evaluating Natural Language Processing Systems

An Analysis and Review

• Author(s): Karen Sparck Jones, Julia R. Galliers,
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
• Pages: 228
• ISBN_10: 3540613099
  ISBN_13: 9783540613091
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Computers / Artificial Intelligence / General , Computers / Data Science / Data Warehousing , Computers / System Administration / Storage & Retrieval , Computers / Information Technology , Computers / Artificial Intelligence / Natural Language Processing , Computers / Software Development & Engineering / General , Computers / Speech & Audio Processing ,

Description:... 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.