Mathematical Foundations of Speech and Language Processing

Johnson, Mark (EDT); Khudanpur, Sanjeev P. (EDT); Ostendorf, Mari (EDT); Rosenfeld, Roni (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1461264847 / ISBN 13: 9781461264842

Published by Springer, 2012

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• Title: Mathematical Foundations of Speech and Language Processing
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1461264847
• ISBN 13: 9781461264842
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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This volume consists of original contributions by participants of the workshops on Mathematical Foundations of Speech Processing and Natural Language Modeling, held in the Fall of 2000 at the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications as part of its "Mathematics in Multimedia" year-long program. Topics include language modeling, prosody, acoustic-phonetic modeling, and statistical methodology.

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Speech and language technologies continue to grow in importance as they are used to create natural and efficient interfaces between people and machines, and to automatically transcribe, extract, analyze, and route information from high-volume streams of spoken and written information.

The workshops on Mathematical Foundations of Speech Processing and Natural Language Modeling were held in the Fall of 2000 at the University of Minnesota's NSF-sponsored Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, as part of a "Mathematics in Multimedia" year-long program. Each workshop brought together researchers in the respective technologies on one hand, and mathematicians and statisticians on the other hand, for an intensive week of cross-fertilization.

There is a long history of benefit from introducing mathematical techniques and ideas to speech and language technologies. Examples include the source-channel paradigm, hidden Markov models, decision trees, exponential models and formal languages theory. It is likely that new mathematical techniques, or novel applications of existing techniques, will once again prove pivotal for moving the field forward.

This volume consists of original contributions presented by participants during the two workshops. Topics include language modeling, prosody, acoustic-phonetic modeling, and statistical methodology.