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This volume presents the proceedings of the Symposium onNatural Language and Speech held during the ESPRITconference of November 1991. The symposiumwas organized bythe newly launched Network of Excellence on Language andSpeech which brings together the foremost European expertsand institutions in the two domains. The proceedings contain ten invited papers from leadingexperts in language and speech research, together with a setof position papers from a panel session on 'Spoken languagesystems: technological goals and integration issues'. Thepapers cover a wide spectrum of research topics, rangingfrom logical aspects of discourse structure to problems ofprosody and automatic speech understanding. A recurrenttheme is the development of an integrated cognitivelymotivated theory of the process by which spoken language isunderstood. This volume is the second of the ESPRIT Basic ResearchSeries. The ESPRIT Basic Research efforts aim atforging stronglinks between academic and industrial teamscarrying out research, often interdisciplinary, at theforefront of information technology. The quality of contentof this series and its broad distribution should have amajorimpact in making these advances accessible to bothacademic and industrial researchers.

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Author:   Ewan Klein ,  Frank Veltman
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Weight:   0.450kg
ISBN:  

9783540549888

ISBN 10:   3540549889
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   15 November 1991
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

The Trend Towards Statistical Models in Natural Language Processing.- Phonological Data Types.- Surface Structure, Intonation, and Focus .- Lexical Issues in Natural Language Processing.- Linguistic Theory and Natural Language Processing.- Parametric Variation.- Approaches to Realisation in Natural Language Generation.- Deductive Interpretation.- On the Representation and Transmission of Information.- Natural Language: From Knowledge to Cognition.- Position papers for the panel session: Spoken Language Systems: Technological Goals and Integration Issues.- 1. Overview.- 2. Steps Towards Accurate Speech-to-Speech Translation.- 3. Future Directions of Speech Recognition Research.- 4. Speech-to-Speech Translation.- 5. The Role of Linguistic Data in Speech Technology.- 6. Text-to-Speech Research: Technological Goals and Integration Issues.- 7. System Architectures as the Key Issues for Speech Understanding.- Curricula Vitae.

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