Thisbookisintendedasaresourceforpeoplewhoareinterestedinusingcomputerstohelpprocessnaturallanguage.A"naturallanguage"referstoanylanguagespokenbyhumans,eithercurrently(e.g.,English,Chinese,Spanish)orinthepast(e.g.,Latin,Greek,Sankrit).“Annotation”referstotheprocessofaddingmetadatainformationtothetextinordertoaugmentacomputer’sabilitiestoperformNaturalLanguageProcessing(NLP).Inparticular,weexaminehowinformationcanbeaddedtonaturallanguagetextthroughannotationinordertoincreasetheperformanceofmachinelearningalgorithms—computerprogramsdesignedtoextrapolaterulesfromtheinformationprovidedovertextsinordertoapplythoserulestounannotatedtextslateron.
                                    
                                    
                                        
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