Reviews for Connectionist, Statistical and Symbolic Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing

The average rating for Connectionist, Statistical and Symbolic Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-11-24 00:00:00 Daniel Hong A tome of conference papers is always a mixed bag - it is unlikely that anybody but the most dedicated specialists would show the same interest for every essay presented. Another constraint may be time / space slots, that are evenly distributed. This is especially clear in this book: Every essay is 10 pages long, plus/minus one page. That is not always helpful for the papers presented: Some topics were sliced down to be naturally treated on ten pages, but some don't. Those that don't have been cut down to size so much that they become nearly useless. On the positive side all authors in here manage to write clearly, legibly, comprehensible - but the reader should bring some knowledge of linguistics as well as computation to feel that way.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-07-09 00:00:00 MARKUS FURMAN Despite the fact that this is in my Read shelf, I have never read this book. But I want to talk about its author, Manny Rayner. Manny is one of the greatest people I have ever known. I know for a fact that once, as he was walking in a poor part of the city, he passed a homeless man who was evidently suffering from the DTs. Manny sat with this man, on the filthy, piss-stinking scrub under a bridge, for seven (7) hours, cradling the unfortunate's head in his arms, until the fit passed. Afterwards, the man wept and tried to press into Manny's hands a few grubby coins, which needless to say Manny would not accept. So no, I haven't read Putting Linguistics into Speech Recognition: The Regulus Grammar Compiler, but how could any book about the Regulus Grammar Compiler fail to be wonderful, written by an author with Manny's heaven-drunk soul? [PLEASE FLAG THIS REVIEW, AS I AM DOING, FOR BEING ABOUT AUTHOR BEHAVIOR, AND NOT ABOUT THE BOOK.] [YOU MAY ALSO WANT TO REPORT MY BOOKSHELF AUTHORS-BEHAVING-FANTASTICALLY, AS IT CLEARLY IS AS PERNICIOUS AS ANY SHELF CALLED AUTHORS-BEHAVING-BADLY.]