2. Search and retrieval of textual information

The field of automatic language processing (ALP) is known to the general public through two flagship applications: machine translation and spelling and grammar correction of documents . In fact, both have been integrated, with varying degrees of success, into everyday working environments (search engines, word processors). Alongside these traditional tasks, other applications have been developed to meet the needs mentioned above, which can be summed up as the need for more intelligent access to textual information. Within this field, there are two main types of objective:

identify relevant documents in a text database: this...

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Bibliography

(1) - JURAFSKY (D.), MARTIN (J.H.) - Speech and language processing – An introduction to natural language processing, computational linguistics, and speech recognition. - (2009).
(2) - LALLICH-BOIDIN (G.), MARET (D.) - Recherche d'information et traitement...

Software tools

References for tools and resources cited in the article :

TreeTagger: morpho-syntactic labeling and lemmatization. University of Stuttgart http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/projekte/corplex/TreeTagger/

Lexico: text statistics tool. Paris 3 University

Websites

Portals on language technologies and language resources

CNRTL Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales http://www.cnrtl.fr/

ELRA – European Language Resources Association http://www.elra.info/

Language Technology World, DFKI...

Standards and norms

TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) consortium created in 1987 to produce recommendations for standardizing the encoding of digital documents http://www.tei-c.org

Events

TALN (Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles) international French-language conference organized annually since 1994 by the ATALA Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues.