Corpora: Book: Robustness in Language and Speech Technology

[Jean Veronis]

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                        KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
                   TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
                               Volume 17
              Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis




             ROBUSTNESS IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGY

                              edited by

                         Jean-Claude Junqua
       Speech Technology Laboratory, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

                          Gertjan van Noord
              University of Groningen, The Netherlands



In this book we address robustness issues at the speech recognition and 
natural language parsing levels, with a focus on feature extraction and 
noise robust recognition, adaptive systems, language modeling, parsing, and 
natural language understanding. This book attempts to give a clear overview 
of the main technologies used in language and speech processing, along with 
an extensive bibliography to enable topics of interest to be pursued 
further. It also brings together speech and language technologies often 
considered separately.

'Robustness in Language and Speech Technology' serves as a valuable 
reference and although not intended as a formal university textbook, 
contains some material that can be used for a course at the graduate or 
undergraduate level.




Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht

Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6790-1
February 2001, 280 pp.
EUR 100.00 / USD 100.00 / GBP 57.00

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CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

1. Introduction; J.-C. Junqua, G. van Noord.

2. Acoustic Features and Distance Measure; J. de Veth, et al.

3. Speaker Compensation in Automatic Speech Recognition; D.T. Merino.

4. Robustness in Statistical Language Modeling; J.R. Bellegarda.

5. Improving Robustness by Modeling Spontaneous Speech Events; P.A. Heeman, 
J.F. Allen.

6. Regular Approximation of Context-Free Grammars; M. Mohri, M.-J. Nederhof.

7. Weighted Grammar Tools: The GRM Library; M. Mohri.

8. Robust Parsing and Beyond; J.-P. Chanod.

9. Robust Parsing of Word Graphs; G. van Noord.

10. Balancing Robustness and Efficiency; C. Penstein Rosé, A. Lavie.


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                            PREVIOUS VOLUMES


    Volume 1:  Recent Advances in Parsing Technology
               Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita (Eds.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996

    Volume 2:  Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing
               Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft (Eds.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997

    Volume 3:  An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis
               Thierry Dutoit
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7, 1997

    Volume 4:  Exploring textual data
               Ludovic Lebart, André Salem and Lisette Berry
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4840-0, December 1997

    Volume 5:  Time Map Phonology:
               Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech
               Recognition
               Julie Carson-Berndsen
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4883-4, 1997

    Volume 6:  Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in
               Lexical Knowledge Bases
               Patrick Saint-Dizier (Ed.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5499-0, December 1998

    Volume 7:  Natural Language Information Retrieval
               Tomek Strzalkowski (Ed.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3, April 1999

    Volume 8:  Techniques in Speech Acoustics
               Jonathan Harrington, Steve Cassidy
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5731-0, July 1999

    Volume 9:  Syntactic Wordclass Tagging
               Hans van Halteren (Ed.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5896-1, August 1999

    Volume 10: Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons
               Viegas, E. (Ed.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6039-7, November 1999

    Volume 11: Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora
               Armstrong, S., Church, K.W., Isabelle, P.,
               Manzi, S., Tzoukermann, E., Yarowsky, D. (Eds.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6055-9, November 1999

    Volume 12: Lexicon Development for Speech and Language Processing
               Frank van Eynde & Dafydd Gibbon (Eds.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6368-X, April 2000.

    Volume 13: Parallel text processing:
               Alignment and use of translation corpora
               Jean Véronis (Ed.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6546-1, August 2000.

    Volume 14: Prosody: theory and experiment
               Studies Presented to Gösta Bruce
               Merle Horne (Ed.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6579-8, August 2000.

    Volume 15: Intonation: Analysis, Modelling and Technology
               Antonis Botinis (Ed.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6605-0, October 2000.
               Paperback, ISBN 0-7923-6723-5, October 2000.

    Volume 16: Advances in probabilistic and other parsing technologies
               Harry Bunt, Anton Nijholt (Eds.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6616-6, October 2000.


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