Spoken Language Characterization

by Dafydd Gibbon (Editor), Roger Moore (Editor), Richard Winski (Editor)

From automatic speech recognition to speech-to-speech translation systems, the lexicon plays an increasingly central role for spoken language technologies. Spoken Language Characterisation offers a detailed survey of features of available lexica, of central requirements for lexicon development and the linguistic characterisation of spoken language Types of lexical information, lexicon structure, lexical access, lexical knowledge acquisition Statistical language modelling in the context of large vocabulary speech recognition Physical characterisation and description of spoken language recordings.

260 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 1998