Text- and Speech-Triggered Information Access - 8th ELSNET Summer School, Chios Island, Greece, July 15-30, 2000, Revised Lectures

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.

List of contents

Text- and Speech-Triggered Information Access: Introduction.- Data Analysis for a Multimedia Library.- A Tutorial on Pronunciation Modeling for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition.- Statistical Language Modelling.- Very Large Scale Information Retrieval.- Reducing Information Variation in Text.- Open Research Questions for Linguistics in Information Access.

Product details

• Assisted by: G. Grefenstette (Editor), Gregory Grefenstette (Editor), S. Renals (Editor), Steve Renals (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.08.2003
• EAN: 9783540406358
• ISBN: 978-3-540-40635-8
• No. of pages: 200
• Weight: 318 g
• Illustrations: VII, 200 p.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; B, Datenbanken, Artificial Intelligence, angewandte informatik, Data Warehousing, Informationsrückgewinnung, Information Retrieval, Theoretische Informatik, computer science, Information Retrieval, Learning, Database Management, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Learning & Instruction, Computer and Information Systems Applications, database programming, Application software, Mathematical theory of computation, Instruction, Internet searching, Mathematical logic, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages, Information Storage and Retrieval, Databases, Formal Languages and Automata Theory, Instructional Psychology