Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition

An explosion of Web-based
language techniques, merging of distinct fields, availability of
phone-based dialogue systems, and much more make this an exciting
time in speech and language processing. The first of its kind to
thoroughly cover language technology – at all levels and with
all modern technologies – this book takes an empirical
approach to the subject, based on applying statistical and other
machine-learning algorithms to large corporations. KEY TOPICS:
Builds each chapter around one or more worked examples
demonstrating the main idea of the chapter, usingthe examples to
illustrate the relative strengths and weaknesses of various
approaches. Adds coverage of statistical sequence labeling,
information extraction, question answering and summarization,
advanced topics in speech recognition, speech synthesis. Revises
coverage of language modeling, formal grammars, statistical
parsing, machine translation, and dialog processing. MARKET: A
useful reference for professionals in any of the areas of speech
and language processing.