[Indic-computing-users] New Book

[Niladri S. D. <ni...@is...>]

Dear Colleagues,

Hope you are hale and hearty.

Kindly allow me to draw your kind attention to inform you that the first 
book on Corpus, Linguistics, and Language Technology with reference to 
Indian Languages is going to be published soon from the Mittal 
Publications of New Delhi - one of the best publishing houses of India 
with an International Standard.

SUMMARY OF THE BOOK
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Title		: Corpus, Linguistics, and Language Technology
Author		: Niladri Sekhar Dash
General area	: Corpus, Linguistics, and Language Technology 
Language	: English.
Pages		: 500+ (approximately)
Nature of book	: Empirical database research, analysis and application.


FEATURES OF THE BOOK
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The book is based on empirical analysis of a large corpus of written 
texts. It covers the history of corpus-based language study, present 
scenario of corpus generation, types of corpus, issues of corpus 
generation, techniques for corpus processing, and the use of corpus in 
general linguistics and language technology. In essence, it focuses on the 
research into naturally occurring texts complemented with qualitative and 
functional interpretation of corpus-based findings. People working in the 
area of natural language processing, computational linguistics, language 
technology, phonology, morphology, lexicology, lexicography, descriptive 
linguistics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, 
language teaching, semantics, dialectology, pragmatics, discourse, 
stylistics, and others will find this book useful for relevant information 
and analysis. The book can also fulfil the requirement of the 
undergraduate and postgraduate students and research scholars dealing with 
corpus linguistics and language technology in Indian languages. 


TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Acknowledgement
List of abbreviations
Code chart for characters
Preface
Chapter 1: Language Corpus: A New Pasture
Chapter 2: Generation of A Written Corpus
Chapter 3: Processing A Written Corpus
Chapter 4: Analysis of Characters
Chapter 5: Analysis of Spelling Variation
Chapter 6: Statistical Analysis of Corpus
Chapter 7: Structure Analysis of Words
Chapter 8: Morphological Processing of Words
Chapter 9: Corpus in Linguistics Studies
Chapter 10: Corpus in Machine Translation

Appendix I
Appendix II
Appendix III
Bibliography
General Index

If you are interested to have a copy of the book, then please contact 
(either by email or by surface mail) in the following address:

MANAGING DIRECTOR
MITTAL PUBLICATIONS
4594/9 DARYAGANJ
NEW DELHI - 110002, INDIA
PH: (011) 23250398, (011) 25351493, (011) 25351521
FAX - 25251521
E-MAIL: mi...@nd...
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Website: www.mittalpublications.com

OR

MR. R.K. KHAN
BRANCH MANAGER
MITTAL PUBLICATIONS
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KOLKATA 700107
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PH: (033) 24426466
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EMAIL: mit...@ho...

With best regards,

Sincerely,

Niladri Sekhar Dash

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