Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the human language technology field.

Ronald Cole (Edited by), Joseph Mariani (Edited by), Hans Uszkoreit (Edited by), Giovanni Battista Varile (Edited by), Annie Zaenen (Edited by), Antonio Zampolli (Edited by)

9780521126243, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 14 January 2010

536 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.71 kg

Originally published in 1997, this book is concerned with human language technology. This technology provides computers with the capability to handle spoken and written language. One major goal is to improve communication between humans and machines. If people can use their own language to access information, working with software applications and controlling machinery, the greatest obstacle for the acceptance of new information technology is overcome. Another important goal is to facilitate communication among people. Machines can help to translate texts or spoken input from one human language to the other. Programs that assist people in writing by checking orthography, grammar and style are constantly improving. This book was sponsored by the Directorate General XIII of the European Union and the Information Science and Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation, USA.

1. Spoken language input Ronald Cole, Victor Zue, Wayne Ward, Melvyn J. Hunt, Richard M. Stern, Renato De Mori, Fabio Brugnara, Salim Roukos, Sadaoki Furui and Patti Price
2. Written language input Joseph Mariani, Sargur N. Srihari, Rohini K. Srihari, Richard G. Casey, Abdel Belaid, Claudie Faure, Eric Lecolinet, Isabelle Guyo, Colin Warwick and Rejean Plamondon
3. Language analysis and understanding Annie Zaenen, Hans Uszkoreit, Fred Karlsson, Lauri Karttunen, Antonio Sanfilippo, Stephen F. Pulman, Fernando Pereira and Ted Briscoe
4. Language generation Hans Uszkoreit, Eduard Hovy, Gertjan van Noord, Gunter Neumann and John Bateman
5. Spoken output technologies Ronald Cole, Yoshinori Sagisaka, Christophe d'Alessandro, Jean-Sylvain Lienard, Richard Sproat, Kathleen R. McKeown and Johanna D. Moore
6. Discourse and dialogue Hans Uszkoreit, Barbara Grosz, Donia Scott, Hans Kamp, Phil Cohe and Egidio Giachin
7. Document processing Annie Zaenen, Per-Kristian Halvorsen, Donna Harman, Peter Schauble, Alan Smeaton, Paul Jacobs, Karen Sparck Jones, Robert Dale, Richard H. Wojcik and James E. Hoard
8. Multilinguality Annie Zaenen, Martin Kay, Christian Boitet, Christian Fluhr, Alexander Waibel, Yeshwant K. Muthusamy and A. Lawrence Spitz
9. Multimodality Joseph Mariani, James L. Flanagan, Gerard Ligozat, Wolfgang Wahlster, Yacine Bellik, Alan J. Goldschen, Christian Benoit, Dominic W. Massaro and Michael M. Cohen
10. Transmission and storage Victor Zue, Isabel Trancoso, Bishnu S. Atal, Nikil S. Jayant and Dirk Van Compernolle
11. Mathematical methods Ronald Cole, Hans Uszkoreit, Steve Levinson, John Makhoul, Aravind Joshi, Herve Bourlard, Nelson Morgan, Ronald M. Kaplan and John Bridle
12. Language resources Ronald Cole, Antonio Zampolli, Eva Ejerhed, Ken Church, Lori Lamel, Ralph Grishman, Nicoletta Calzolari, Christian Galinski and Gerhard Budin
13. Evaluation Joseph Mariani, Lynette Hirschman, Henry S. Thompson, Beth Sundheim, John Hutchins, Ezra Black, Margaret King, David S. Pallett, Adrian Fourcin, Louis C. W. Pols, Sharon Oviatt, Herman J. M. Steeneken and Junichi Kanai
Glossary
Citation index
Index.

Subject Areas: Computational linguistics [CFX]