The overall aim of the book is to provide an integrated view of the separate stages of the speech chain, covering the production process, speech data analysis and speech perception. Analysis of information bearing elements of the speech signal have found applications in linguistic theory and in the knowledge base of speech technology with special reference to speech synthesis.
The book contains 19 selected articles organized in 6 chapters:
Speech research overview with a historical outline,
Speech production and synthesis,
The voice source,
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The overall aim of the book is to provide an integrated view of the separate stages of the speech chain, covering the production process, speech da...
This new Springer volume provides a comprehensive and detailed look at current approaches to automated question answering. The level of presentation is suitable for newcomers to the field as well as for professionals wishing to study this area and/or to build practical QA systems. The book can serve as a "how-to" handbook for IT practitioners and system developers. It can also be used to teach graduate courses in Computer Science, Information Science and related disciplines.
This new Springer volume provides a comprehensive and detailed look at current approaches to automated question answering. The level of presentatio...
Graeme Hirst University of Toronto Of the many kinds of ambiguity in language, the two that have received the most attention in computational linguistics are those of word senses and those of syntactic structure, and the reasons for this are clear: these ambiguities are overt, their resolution is seemingly essential for any prac- cal application, and they seem to require a wide variety of methods and knowledge-sources with no pattern apparent in what any particular - stance requires. Right at the birth of artificial intelligence, in his 1950 paper Computing machinery and intelligence, Alan...
Graeme Hirst University of Toronto Of the many kinds of ambiguity in language, the two that have received the most attention in computational linguist...
This book describes the framework of inductive dependency parsing, a methodology for robust and efficient syntactic analysis of unrestricted natural language text. Coverage includes a theoretical analysis of central models and algorithms, and an empirical evaluation of memory-based dependency parsing using data from Swedish and English. A one-stop reference to dependency-based parsing of natural language, it will interest researchers and system developers in language technology, and is suitable for graduate or advanced undergraduate courses.
This book describes the framework of inductive dependency parsing, a methodology for robust and efficient syntactic analysis of unrestricted natura...
This book edition highlights recent trends and important issues that still remain only partially solved or even unsolved within the broad ?eld of discourse and dialogue. The ?eld is discussed and illustrated both from an overall spoken (multimodal) dialogue system perspective as well as from a more compone- related perspective. Issues discussed include, for example, discourse and dialogue modelling in research versus industrial spoken dialogue systems, evaluation, miscommunication and error handling, grounding, statistical and corpus-based approaches to discourse and dialogue modelling, data...
This book edition highlights recent trends and important issues that still remain only partially solved or even unsolved within the broad ?eld of disc...
References 74 Part II Annotation and Analysis of Multimodal Data: Speech and Gesture 4 FORM 79 Craig H. Martell 1. Introduction 79 2. Structure of FORM 80 3. Annotation Graphs 85 4. Annotation Example 86 5. Preliminary Inter-Annotator Agreement Results 88 6. Conclusion: Applications to HLT and HCI? 90 Appendix: Other Tools, Schemes and Methods of Gesture Analysis 91 References 95 5 97 On the Relationships among Speech, Gestures, and Object Manipulation in Virtual Environments: Initial Evidence Andrea Corradini and Philip R. Cohen 1. Introduction 97 2. Study 99 3. Data Analysis 101 4. Results...
References 74 Part II Annotation and Analysis of Multimodal Data: Speech and Gesture 4 FORM 79 Craig H. Martell 1. Introduction 79 2. Structure of FOR...
Spoken dialog systems allow people to get information, conduct business, and be entertained, simply by speaking to a computer. There are hundreds of these systems currently in use, handling millions of interactions every day. How do they work? What problems do they solve? The goal of this book is to answer these questions and others like them, including:
How can I decide if a spoken dialog system is a good fit for the needs of my organization?
What's the difference between a voice user interface and a conventional graphical interface? What are the psychological...
Spoken dialog systems allow people to get information, conduct business, and be entertained, simply by speaking to a computer. There are hundreds o...
Continued progress in Speech Technology in the face of ever-increasing demands on the performance levels of applications is a challenge to the whole speech and language science community. Robust recognition and understanding of spontaneous speech in varied environments, good comprehensibility and naturalness of expressive speech synthesis are goals that cannot be achieved without a change of paradigm. This book argues for interdisciplinary communication and cooperation in problem-solving in general, and discusses the interaction between speech and language engineering and phonetics in...
Continued progress in Speech Technology in the face of ever-increasing demands on the performance levels of applications is a challenge to the whol...
Parsing can be defined as the decomposition of complex structures into their constituent parts, and parsing technology as the methods, the tools, and the software to parse automatically. Parsing is a central area of research in the automatic processing of human language. Parsers are being used in many application areas, for example question answering, extraction of information from text, speech recognition and understanding, and machine translation. New developments in parsing technology are thus widely applicable.
This book contains contributions from many of today's leading...
Parsing can be defined as the decomposition of complex structures into their constituent parts, and parsing technology as the methods, the tools, a...
Intelligent Multimodal Information Presentation relates to the ability of a computer system to automatically produce interactive information presentations, taking into account the specifics about the user, such as needs, interests and knowledge, and engaging in a collaborative interaction that helps the retrieval of relevant information and its understanding on the part of the user.
The volume includes descriptions of some of the most representative recent works on Intelligent Information Presentation and a view of the challenges ahead.
Audience:...
Intelligent Multimodal Information Presentation relates to the ability of a computer system to automatically produce interactive i...