Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing
By: edited by Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft
Contributors: Bloothooft, Gerrit
Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology -- 2; Text, Speech and Language Technology -- 2
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9789048148134; 9789401711838
Subjects: Linguistics; Computational linguistics; Artificial intelligence
Description: Corpus-based methods will be found at the heart of many language and speech processing systems. This book provides an in-depth introduction to these technologies through chapters describing basic statistical modeling techniques for language and speech, the use of Hidden Markov Models in continuous speech recognition, the development of dialogue systems, part-of-speech tagging and partial parsing, data-oriented parsing and n-gram language modeling. The book attempts to give both a clear overview of the main technologies used in language and speech processing, along with sufficient mathematics to understand the underlying principles. There is also an extensive bibliography to enable topics of interest to be pursued further. Overall, we believe that the book will give newcomers a solid introduction to the field and it will give existing practitioners a concise review of the principal technologies used in state-of-the-art language and speech processing systems. Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing is an initiative of ELSNET, the European Network in Language and Speech. In its activities, ELSNET attaches great importance to the integration of language and speech, both in research and in education. The need for and the potential of this integration are well demonstrated by this publication.
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