Language, Technology, and Society

Zusatztext Steven Poole's non-fiction choice in The Guardian^ Informationen zum Autor Richard Sproat is a Professor in the Center for Spoken Language Understanding and the Division of Biomedical Computer Science, Oregon Health and Science University. He has been awarded seven patents for technological innovations and is the author of A Computational Theory of Writing Systems (CUP, 2000) and co-author with Brian Roark of Computational Approaches to Syntax and Morphology (OUP, 2007). Klappentext This book traces the history of language technology from writing - the first technology designed for language - to digital speech and contemporary language systems. Written in a clear, readable style, the book offers fascinating reading for everyone interested in how language and technology have shaped and continue to shape our day-to-day lives. Zusammenfassung This book traces the history of language technology from writing - the first technology designed for language - to digital speech and contemporary language systems. Written in a clear, readable style, the book offers fascinating reading for everyone interested in how language and technology have shaped and continue to shape our day-to-day lives.

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• Authors: Richard Sproat, Richard (Oregon Health and Science Univers Sproat, Richard (Oregon Health and Science University) Sproat, Sproat Richard
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.04.2010
• EAN: 9780199549382
• ISBN: 978-0-19-954938-2
• No. of pages: 302
• Subjects: Education and learning; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems, Sociolinguistics, Computational Linguistics, Writing systems, alphabets, Computational and corpus linguistics, Writing systems, alphabets, scripts