Where Humans Meet Machines
Subtitle: Innovative Solutions for Knotty Natural-Language Problems
By: edited by Amy Neustein, Judith A. Markowitz
Contributors: Markowitz, Judith A.; SpringerLink (Online service)
Publisher: Springer New York; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9781461469346
Subjects: Engineering; Production of electric energy or power; Electrical Machines and Networks Power Electronics; Computational linguistics; Machinery and Machine Elements; Image and Speech Processing Signal
Description: Where Humans Meet Machines: Innovative Solutions for Knotty Natural-Language Problems brings humans and machines closer together by showing how linguistic complexities that confound the speech systems of today can be handled effectively by sophisticated natural-language technology. Some of the most vexing natural-language problems that are addressed in this book entail   recognizing and processing idiomatic expressions, understanding metaphors, matching an anaphor correctly with its antecedent, performing word-sense disambiguation, and handling out-of-vocabulary words and phrases. This fourteen-chapter anthology consists of contributions from industry scientists and from academicians working at major universities in North America and Europe. They include researchers who have played a central role in DARPA-funded programs and developers who craft real-world solutions for corporations. These contributing authors analyze the role of natural language technology in the global marketplace; they explore the need for natural language mapping-tools that can cull important data from the vast array of social-media postings; they describe innovative Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods and applications; and they offer NLP tools for physicians, educators, and translators.  Their contributions constitute diverse and multifaceted solutions for the knotty natural-language problems that permeate everyday human communications. Where Humans Meet Machines: Innovative Solutions for Knotty Natural-Language Problems is designed for speech engineers, system developers, computer scientists, AI researchers, and others interested in utilizing natural-language technology in both spoken and text-based applications.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Making the Case for an Open, Unified System Architecture in Response to Rapid Developments in the Natural Language Industry: Translingual Automatic Language Exploration System (TALES); title: The Burgeoning of Medical Social-Media Postings and the Need for Improved Natural Language Mapping Tools; title: Machine Translation: the Enterprise Point of View; title: Speech-Enabled Unified Communications: Overcoming the Multilingual Challenges of the European Market; title: Exploiting Lexical Sensitivity in Performing Word-Sense Disambiguation; title: Summarizing Short Texts through a Discourse-Centered Approach in a Multilingual Context; title: Handling Two Difficult Challenges for Text-to-Speech Synthesis Systems:  Out-of-Vocabulary Words and Prosody; title: A Case Study in Romanian; title: MAP: An Abstraction-Based Metaphor Analysis Program for Overcoming Cross-Modal Challenges; title: Translation of Idiomatic Expressions across Different Languages: A Study of the Effectiveness of TransSearch; title: Argumentation-Based Dialog Systems for Medical Training; title: Design of Dialog-Based Intelligent Tutoring Systems to Simulate Human-to-Human Tutoring.- TCAD: Vocabulary Acquisition Tool for Motivating Bilingual Pupils with Hearing Impairments in Learning English; title: A Hybrid Approach to Automated Rating of Foreign Language Proficiency Using Oral Test Responses.- Multilingual Systems, Translation Technology and Their Impact on the Translator’s Profession; title: Editors’ biographies.