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Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Cambridge University Press, 2009

Text-to-Speech Synthesis provides a complete, end-to-end account of the process of generating speech by computer. Giving an in-depth explanation of all aspects of current speech synthesis technology, it assumes no specialized prior knowledge. Introductory chapters on linguistics, phonetics, signal processing and speech signals lay the...

New Developments In Parsing Technology (Text, Speech and Language Techology)

Springer, 2004

Parsing can be defined as the decomposition of complex structures into their constituent parts, and parsing technology as the methods, the tools and the software to parse automatically. Parsing is a central area of research in the automatic processing of human language. Parsers are being used in many application areas, for example question...

Metonymy: Hidden Shortcuts in Language, Thought and Communication (Cambridge Studies in Cognitive Linguistics)

Cambridge University Press, 2015

'Metonymy' is a type of figurative language used in everyday conversation, a form of shorthand that allows us to use our shared knowledge to communicate with fewer words than we would otherwise need. 'I'll pencil you in' and 'let me give you a hand' are both examples of metonymic language. Metonymy serves a wide...

Analysis and Synthesis of Logics: How to Cut and Paste Reasoning Systems (Applied Logic Series)

Springer, 2008

Starting with simple examples showing the relevance of cutting and pasting logics, the monograph develops a mathematical theory of combining and decomposing logics, ranging from propositional and first-order based logics to higher-order based logics as well as to non-truth functional logics. The theory covers mechanisms for combining semantic...

Algorithms on Strings

Cambridge University Press, 2007

'perfect for lectures on 'stringology', for graduate students as a reference on the topic and for appliers in linguistic or molecular biology' Acta Scientiarum Mathematicarum

This text and reference on string processes and pattern matching presents examples related to the automatic processing of natural language, to the...

Recent Advances in Formal Languages and Applications (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Springer, 2006

The theory of formal languages is widely accepted as the backbone of theoretical computer science. It mainly originated from mathematics (combinatorics, algebra, mathematical logic) and generative linguistics. All human problem solving capabilities can be considered in a certain sense as a manipulation of symbols and structures composed by symbols,...

Machine Translation (MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)

MIT Press, 2017

A concise, nontechnical overview of the development of machine translation, including the different approaches, evaluation issues, and major players in the industry. About the Author Thierry Poibeau is Director of

Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, Head of the LATTICE (Langues, Textes,...

Relevance in Argumentation

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

A textbook for a graduate or advanced undergraduate course in such fields as philosophy, law, artificial intelligence, linguistics, cognitive science, and speech communications. It explains how to evaluate the relevance of arguments, using examples and drawing on a new dialectical theory of relevance.

The purpose of this book is to...

Robot Builder's Bonanza, 4th Edition

McGraw-Hill, 2011

Which of these fields are involved in robotics? You may choose from the following: engineering, electronics, psychology, sociology, biology, physics, artificial intelligence, math, art, mechanical design, mechanical construction, computer programming, sound synthesis, vision, ultrasonics, linguistics, microelectronics, process control,...

The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English

Routledge, 2017

The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English is the most up-to-date record of the pronunciation of British and American English. Based on research by a joint UK and US team of linguistics experts, this is a unique survey of how English is really spoken in the twenty-first century. This second edition has been fully...

Statistics for Linguistics with R: A Practical Introduction (Mouton Textbook)

Walter de Gruyter, 2013

This book is the revised and extended second edition of Statistics for Linguistics with R. The comprehensive revision includes new small sections on programming topics that facilitate statistical analysis, the addition of a variety of statistical functions readers can apply to their own data, and a revision of overview sections on statistical...

Word Sense Disambiguation: Algorithms and Applications (Text, Speech and Language Technology)

Springer, 2006

Word sense disambiguation is a core research problem in computational linguistics, which was recognized at the beginning of the scientific interest in machine translation and artificial intelligence. And yet no book has been fully devoted to review the wide variety of approaches to solving the problem. The time is right for such a...

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