Where Humans Meet Machines
Innovative Solutions for Knotty Natural-Language Problems
Published on 8. July 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
XV, 315 pages
978-1-4899-9182-9 (ISBN)
Description
Editors Amy Neustein and Judith A. Markowitz have recruited a talented group of contributors to introduce the next generation of natural language technologies to resolve some of the most vexing natural-language problems that compromise the performance of speech systems today. 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. This anthology is aimed at speech engineers, system developers, computer scientists, AI researchers, and others interested in utilizing natural-language technology in both spoken and text-based applications.
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Edition
2013 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional/practitioner
Illustrations
XV, 315 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
505 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4899-9182-9 (9781489991829)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4614-6934-6
Schweitzer Classification
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Amy Neustein | Judith A. Markowitz
Where Humans Meet Machines
Innovative Solutions for Knotty Natural-Language Problems
Book
06/2013
Springer
€106.99
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Persons
Amy Neustein, Ph.D. is the Founder and CEO of Linguistic Technology Systems.
Judith Markowitz, Ph.D. is the President of J. Markowitz, Consultants.
Content
Preface.- 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).- The Burgeoning of Medical Social-Media Postings and the Need for Improved Natural Language Mapping Tools.- Machine Translation: the Enterprise Point of View.- Speech-Enabled Unified Communications: Overcoming the Multilingual Challenges of the European Market.- Exploiting Lexical Sensitivity in Performing Word-Sense Disambiguation.- Summarizing Short Texts through a Discourse-Centered Approach in a Multilingual Context.- Handling Two Difficult Challenges for Text-to-Speech Synthesis Systems: Out-of-Vocabulary Words and Prosody -- A Case Study in Romanian.- MAP: An Abstraction-Based Metaphor Analysis Program for Overcoming Cross-Modal Challenges.- Translation of Idiomatic Expressions across Different Languages: A Study of the Effectiveness of TransSearch.- Argumentation-Based Dialog Systems for Medical Training.- 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.- 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.- Editors' biographies.