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Philippe Blache pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr
Mon Sep 20 12:19:28 UTC 1999


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1/ From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
   Subject: Book: Techniques in Speech Acoustics

2/ From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
   Subject: Book: Syntactic Wordclass Tagging
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1/ From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
   Subject: Book: Techniques in Speech Acoustics


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                     KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
               TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
                            Volume 8
            Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis


                 Techniques in Speech Acoustics

                               by

                       Jonathan Harrington
                         Steve Cassidy

            Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre
              Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia


"Techniques in Speech Acoustics" provides an introduction to the acoustic
analysis and characteristics of speech sounds. The first part of the book
covers aspects of the source-filter decomposition of speech, spectrographic
analysis, the acoustic theory of speech production and acoustic phonetic
cues. The second part is based on computational techniques for analysing
the acoustic speech signal including digital time and frequency analyses,
formant synthesis, and the linear predictive coding of speech. There is
also an introductory chapter on the classification of acoustic speech
signals which is relevant to aspects of automatic speech and talker
recognition. Included with the book is a CD-ROM containing extensive speech
corpora, the EMU speech analysis tools, extensions to the X-LISP-STAT
programming language that are adapted to speech analysis, and numerous
exercises that are linked to the major themes of the book and which can be
run on Windows-95 and UNIX platforms.

The book and CD-ROM are intended for use as teaching materials on
undergraduate and postgraduate speech acoustics and experimental phonetics
courses; they are also aimed at researchers from phonetics, linguistics,
computer science, psychology and engineering who wish to gain an
understanding of the basis of speech acoustics and its application to
fields such as speech synthesis and automatic speech recognition.

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5731-0
July 1999, 336 pp.
NLG 250.00 / USD 150.00 / GBP 88.00

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Contents

Preface.

Vowel and Consonant Transcriptions.
Contents of the CD-Rom.

1. The Scope of Speech Acoustics.
2. The Physics of Speech.
3. The Acoustic Theory of Speech Production.
4. Segmental and Prosodic Cues.
5. Time-Domain Analysis.
6. Frequency-Domain Analysis.
7. Digital Formant Synthesis.
8. Linear Prediction of Speech.
9. Classification of Speech Data.

References.

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                            PREVIOUS VOLUMES


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

   Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing
             Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft
             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

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


Check the series Web page for order information:

   http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB


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2/ From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
   Subject: Book: Syntactic Wordclass Tagging


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                     KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
               TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
                            Volume 9
             Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis


                  Syntactic Wordclass Tagging

                           edited by
                        Hans van Halteren

                  Dept. of Language and Speech
             University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands


This book provides an in-depth discussion of the field of syntactic
wordclass tagging, i.e. the annotation of the words in a text with tags
indicating their syntactic properties. Represented are the viewpoints of
the two main groups who take an interest in tagging: the users of tagged
text and the developers of tagging software.

The book starts out by examining the field foremost from the user's point
of view. After a brief historical overview, the nature and uses of tagging
are discussed and current practice is described. Here the user will find
what tagging is and the software developer what it is the user wants.

The book then switches to the other point of view and continues with a
detailed explanation of the most common computational techniques for
automatically tagging large amounts of text. Here the software developer
finds information needed for the implementation of a tagger while the user
gains insight into the possibilities and impossibilities of automatic
tagging and how computer-provided tags should be interpreted.

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5896-1
August 1999, 300 pp.
NLG 280.00 / USD 149.00 / GBP 93.00

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Contents and Contributors

Preface.
Contributing Authors.

Part I: The User's View.

1. Orientation; A. Voutilainen.
2. A Short History of Tagging; A. Voutilainen.
3. The Use of Tagging; G. Leech, N. Smith.
4. Tagsets; J. Cloeren.
5. Standards for Tagsets; G. Leech, A. Wilson.
6. Performance of Taggers; H. van Halteren.
7. Selection and Operation of Taggers; H. van Halteren.

Part II: The Implementer's View.

8. Automatic Taggers: An Introduction; H. van Halteren, A. Voutilainen.
9. Tokenization; G. Grefenstette.
10. Lexicons for Tagging; A. Schiller, L. Karttunen.
11. Standardization in the Lexicon; M. Monachini, N. Calzolari.
12. Morphological Analysis; K. Oflazer.
13. Tagging Unknown Words; E. Brill.
14. Hand-Crafted Rules; A. Voutilainen.
15. Corpus-Based Rules; E. Brill.
16. Hidden Markov Models; M. El-Beze, B. Merialdo.
17. Machine Learning Approaches; W. Daelemans.

Appendix A: Example tagsets.
References.
Index

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                            PREVIOUS VOLUMES


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

   Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing
             Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft
             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

   Volume 7: Natural Language Information Retrieval
             Tomek Strzalkowski
             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


Check the series Web page for order information:

   http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB


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