Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing - Text, Speech and Language Technology 1997 edition

Marc Notes: Based on papers presented at the 2nd European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication which was held summer 1994, Utrecht, Belgium.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-234). Table of Contents: Introduction. 1. Corpus-Based Statistical Methods in Speech and Language Processing; H. Ney. 2. Hidden Markov Models in Speech and Language Processing; K. Knill, S. Young. 3. Spoken Language Dialogue Systems; E. Giachin, S. McGlashan. 4. Part-of-Speech Tagging and Partial Parsing; S. Abney. 5. Data-Oriented Language Processing; R. Bod, R. Scha. 6. Statistical Language Modeling Using Leaving-One-Out; H. Ney, S. Martin, F. Wessel. Author Information. Bibliography. Publisher Marketing: Corpus-based methods are 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.

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