false 908048 1 <P style="MARGIN: 0px" soNormal> 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 &ndash; at all levels and with all modern technologies &ndash; this book takes an empirical approach to the subject, based on applying statistical and other machine-learning algorithms to large corporations. 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. A useful reference for professionals in any of the areas of speech and language processing.</P> 893187 26 5 2006 Speech and Language Processing (2nd Edition) total:4|5:4| 4 20 11 1 5 0 false false Tue Dec 23 07:58:51 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 08:02:58 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Nov 13 12:40:25 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 12:40:35 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 23 18:24:14 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 18:24:17 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Sep 24 21:21:43 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 21:21:43 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Sep 24 00:29:16 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 00:29:23 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Apr 11 01:14:11 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 01:14:11 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Feb 09 15:14:49 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 15:14:49 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Feb 02 11:43:30 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 11 14:26:12 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 02 11:43:30 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Dec 01 19:15:46 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 19:15:46 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sun Oct 19 11:56:28 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 19 11:56:35 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Sep 28 14:29:28 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 28 14:31:23 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=908048