Book Review of: Speech and language processing, Action Editor: Stefan Wermter

ause the field of speech and language processMorphology and Finite-State Transducers and ing is encompassed by different but overlapping Dialogue and Conversational Agents. In addition areas such as computational linguistics, natural lanthere are a number of useful appendices as well as an guage pro...

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Main Authors: Stefan Wermter, Sheila Garfield
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2001
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.29.4025
http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/publications/./ps/garfield.pdf
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Summary:ause the field of speech and language processMorphology and Finite-State Transducers and ing is encompassed by different but overlapping Dialogue and Conversational Agents. In addition areas such as computational linguistics, natural lanthere are a number of useful appendices as well as an guage processing, speech recognition and computaextensive bibliography which is in excess of 20 tional psycholinguistics, a brief history is given of pages. Throughout the text there are numerous the main motivational factors in these areas from the pointers to other sources of reading. Each chapter 1940s until 1999. begins with an outline of the material to be covered The book introduces the algorithms that are the and ends with a summary, bibliographical and his- basis on which each particular field has developed. torical notes and exercises. The summary outlines This is particularly advantageous for those new to the main points covered with emphasis on key words this field of study but can be ski