Multilingual Natural Language Processing Applications: From Theory to Practice

Acknowledgments

This book was, from its inception, designed as a highly collaborative effort. We are immensely grateful for the encouraging support obtained from the beginning from IBM Press/Prentice Hall, especially from Bernard Goodwin and all the others at IBM Press who helped us get this project off the ground and see it to completion. A book of this kind would also not have been possible without the generous time, effort, and technical acumen of our fellow chapter authors, so we owe huge thanks to Otakar Smrž, Hyun-Jo You, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Benoit Favre, Elizabeth Shriberg, Anoop Sarkar, Sameer Pradhan, Katrin Kirchhoff, Mark Sammons, V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, Dan Roth, Carmen Banea, Rada Mihalcea, Janyce Wiebe, Xiaqiang Luo, Philipp ...