Text- and Speech-Triggered Information Access
Author | : Steve Renals |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2003-08-04 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783540406358 |
ISBN-13 | : 3540406352 |
Rating | : 4/5 (352 Downloads) |
Download or read book Text- and Speech-Triggered Information Access written by Steve Renals and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-08-04 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents revised versions of the lectures given at the 8th ELSNET European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication held on the Island of Chios, Greece, in summer 2000. Besides an introductory survey, the book presents lectures on data analysis for multimedia libraries, pronunciation modeling for large vocabulary speech recognition, statistical language modeling, very large scale information retrieval, reduction of information variation in text, and a concluding chapter on open questions in research for linguistics in information access. The book gives newcomers to language and speech communication a clear overview of the main technologies and problems in the area. Researchers and professionals active in the area will appreciate the book as a concise review of the technologies used in text- and speech-triggered information access.