Readings in Japanese Natural Language Processing

Readings in Japanese Natural Language Processing surveys a wide range of texts that explore Japanese morphology and syntactic analysis, discourse, and natural language process applications. Presenting such techniques in a manner accessible to those with little or no familiarity with Japanese, these carefully selected papers will broaden the scope of our study of Japanese linguistic phenomena, making this collection indispensable in the field.

Francis Bond is associate professor in the Computational Linguistics Lab at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is author ofTranslating the Untranslatable: A Solution to the Problem of Generating English Determiners, also published by CSLI and distributed by the University of Chicago Press.Timothy Baldwin is professor in the Department of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, Australia.Kentaro Inui is professor in the Communication Science Lab at Tohoku University, Japan.Shun Ishizaki is professor of environment and information studies at Keio University, Japan.Hiroshi Nakagawa is professor of information technology at the University of Tokyo, Japan.Akira Shimazu is professor in the School of Information Science at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.