Natural Language Processing for the Web

The Web offers a wealth of unstructured textual data that is not readily processable using computational resources both because of its format and owing to the ambiguity of natural language. The Natural Language Processing for the Web tutorial focuses on challenging and interesting aspects dealing with natural language Web applications. The audience is introduced to Natural Language Processing as a discipline in order to acquire a basic knowledge of its different methods, particularly statistical, and evaluation metrics. State-of-the-art applications of natural language research will then be discussed in detail, including information extraction from the social Web and Web crawling with particular focus on question answering systems and natural language data service querying.