Mathematical Foundations of Speech and Language Processing / Edition 1

by Mark Johnson, Sanjeev P. Khudanpur, Mari Ostendorf, Roni Rosenfeld

Overview

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 the 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387203263
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	03/18/2004
Series:	The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications , #138
Edition description:	2004
Pages:	289
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Probability and statistics in computational linguistics, a brief review.- Three issues in modern language modeling.- Shastic analysis of Structured Language Modeling.- Latent semantic language modeling for speech recognition.- Prosody modeling for automatic speech recognition and understanding.- Switching dynamic system models for speech articulation and acoustics.- Segmental HMMS: Modeling dynamics and underlying structure in speech.- Modelling graph-based observation spaces for segment-based speech recognition.- Towards robust and adaptive speech recognition models.- Graphical models and automatic speech recognition.- An introduction to Markov chain Monte Carlo methods.- Semiparametric filtering in speech processing.- List of workshop participants.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

"The topics covered are mostly related to acoustic and language modeling for automatic speech recognition (ASR). … I found the book very interesting. … I would recommend it only to readers who are already familiar with statistical methods for language processing. I think that Mathematical Foundations of Speech and Language Processing is, nevertheless, a good reference about recent trends in the fields of ASR and language processing, which are indeed very relevant to current research in MT." (M. Federico, Machine Translation, Vol. 20, 2006)

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