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Bayesian Analysis in Natural Language Processing [electronic resource] / by Shay Cohen.

By: Cohen, Shay [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies: Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016Edition: 1st ed. 2016.Description: IV, 274 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783031021619.Subject(s): Artificial intelligence | Natural language processing (Computer science) | Computational linguistics | Artificial Intelligence | Natural Language Processing (NLP) | Computational LinguisticsAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 006.3 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Preliminaries -- Introduction -- Priors -- Bayesian Estimation -- Sampling Methods -- Variational Inference -- Nonparametric Priors -- Bayesian Grammar Models -- Closing Remarks -- Bibliography -- Author's Biography -- Index .
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: Natural language processing (NLP) went through a profound transformation in the mid-1980s when it shifted to make heavy use of corpora and data-driven techniques to analyze language. Since then, the use of statistical techniques in NLP has evolved in several ways. One such example of evolution took place in the late 1990s or early 2000s, when full-fledged Bayesian machinery was introduced to NLP. This Bayesian approach to NLP has come to accommodate for various shortcomings in the frequentist approach and to enrich it, especially in the unsupervised setting, where statistical learning is done without target prediction examples. We cover the methods and algorithms that are needed to fluently read Bayesian learning papers in NLP and to do research in the area. These methods and algorithms are partially borrowed from both machine learning and statistics and are partially developed "in-house" in NLP. We cover inference techniques such as Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling and variational inference, Bayesian estimation, and nonparametric modeling. We also cover fundamental concepts in Bayesian statistics such as prior distributions, conjugacy, and generative modeling. Finally, we cover some of the fundamental modeling techniques in NLP, such as grammar modeling and their use with Bayesian analysis.
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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Preliminaries -- Introduction -- Priors -- Bayesian Estimation -- Sampling Methods -- Variational Inference -- Nonparametric Priors -- Bayesian Grammar Models -- Closing Remarks -- Bibliography -- Author's Biography -- Index .

Natural language processing (NLP) went through a profound transformation in the mid-1980s when it shifted to make heavy use of corpora and data-driven techniques to analyze language. Since then, the use of statistical techniques in NLP has evolved in several ways. One such example of evolution took place in the late 1990s or early 2000s, when full-fledged Bayesian machinery was introduced to NLP. This Bayesian approach to NLP has come to accommodate for various shortcomings in the frequentist approach and to enrich it, especially in the unsupervised setting, where statistical learning is done without target prediction examples. We cover the methods and algorithms that are needed to fluently read Bayesian learning papers in NLP and to do research in the area. These methods and algorithms are partially borrowed from both machine learning and statistics and are partially developed "in-house" in NLP. We cover inference techniques such as Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling and variational inference, Bayesian estimation, and nonparametric modeling. We also cover fundamental concepts in Bayesian statistics such as prior distributions, conjugacy, and generative modeling. Finally, we cover some of the fundamental modeling techniques in NLP, such as grammar modeling and their use with Bayesian analysis.

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