Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology
Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology

Author: Giovanni Battista Varile

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 9780521592772

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Languages, in all their forms, are the more efficient and natural means for people to communicate. Enormous quantities of information are produced, distributed and consumed using languages. Human language technology's main purpose is to allow the use of automatic systems and tools to assist humans in producing and accessing information, to improve communication between humans, and to assist humans in communicating with machines. This book, sponsored by the Directorate General XIII of the European Union and the Information Science and Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation, USA, offers the first comprehensive overview of the human language technology field.

LINGUISTICS -Volume I
LINGUISTICS -Volume I

Author: Vesna Muhvic-Dimanovski, Lelija Socanac

Publisher: EOLSS Publications

Published: 2009-05-10

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 1848262876

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Linguistics is a component of Encyclopedia of Social Sciences and Humanities in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on Linguistics discusses: Phonetics, Phonology, Morphologically Engineered Words, Syntax, Semantics, Sociolinguistic Variation and Change, Language and Identity, Sign Languages, Pidgins and Creoles, Code-Switching, Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Forensic Linguistics, Language Teaching Methodology and Second Language Acquisition, EcoLinguistics, The Art Of Lexicography, Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction, Historical Evolution of World Languages This volume is aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers, NGOs and GOs.

Knowledge Organization and Classification in International Information Retrieval
Knowledge Organization and Classification in International Information Retrieval

Author: Nancy Williamson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1136421009

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Learn step-by-step how to develop knowledge-based products for international use! Knowledge Organization and Classification in International Information Retrieval examines current efforts to deal with the increasing globalization of information and knowledge. International authors walk you through the theoretical foundations and conceptual elements behind knowledge management, addressing areas such as the Internet, multinational resources, translations, and information languages. The tools, techniques, and case studies provided in this book will be invaluable to anyone interested in bridging the international information retrieval language gap. This book is divided into four sections that address major themes for internationalized information and knowledge: General Bibliographic Systems discusses how bibliographic classification systems can be adapted for specific subjects, the problems with addressing different language expressions, and the future of these systems Information Organization in Knowledge Resources explores knowledge organization and classification, focusing mainly on libraries and on the Internet Linguistics, Terminology, and Natural Language Processing analyzes the latest developments in language processing and the design of information retrieval tools and resources Knowledge in the World and the World of Knowledge addresses the ontological foundations of knowledge organization and classification and knowledge management in organizations from different cultures With this book, you’ll gain a better understanding about the international efforts to globalize: the Dewey Decimal Classification the Library of Congress Classification the Universal Decimal Classification multilingual thesauri Web directories of education-related resources human language technology metadata schemas the North American Industry Classification Figures, tables, charts, and diagrams elucidate the concepts in Knowledge Organization and Classification in International Information Retrieval. Information educators and practitioners as well as specialists in classification and knowledge organization will find this book valuable for its focus on the problems ofand solutions forinformation retrieval for specific linguistic, cultural, and domain communities of discourse.

Perspectives on Multimodality
Perspectives on Multimodality

Author: Eija Ventola

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9027232067

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This volume sign posts several paths of multimodality research and theory-building today. The chapters represent a cross-section of current perspectives on multimodal discourse with a special focus on theoretical and methodological issues (mode hierarchies, modelling semiotic resources as multiple semiotic systems, multimodal corpus annotation). In addition, it discusses a wide range of applications for multimodal description in fields like mathematics, entertainment, education, museum design, medicine and translation.

Natural Language Processing and Information Systems
Natural Language Processing and Information Systems

Author: Flavius Frasincar

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-06-12

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 3319595695

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2017, held in Liège, Belgium, in June 2017. The 22 full papers, 19 short papers, and 16 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 125 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: feature engineering; information extraction; information extraction from resource-scarce languages; natural language processing applications; neural language models and applications; opinion mining and sentiment analysis; question answering systems and applications; semantics-based models and applications; and text summarization.

Computing with Instinct
Computing with Instinct

Author: Yang Cai

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-03-03

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 3642197574

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Simplicity in nature is the ultimate sophistication. The world's magnificence has been enriched by the inner drive of instincts, the profound drive of our everyday life. Instinct is an inherited behavior that responds to environmental stimuli. Instinctive computing is a computational simulation of biological and cognitive instincts, which influence how we see, feel, appear, think and act. If we want a computer to be genuinely secure, intelligent, and to interact naturally with us, we must give computers the ability to recognize, understand, and even to have primitive instincts. This book, Computing with Instincts, comprises the proceedings of the Instinctive Computing Workshop held at Carnegie Mellon University in the summer of 2009. It is the first state-of-the-art survey on this subject. The book consists of three parts: Instinctive Sensing, Communication and Environments, including new experiments with in vitro biological neurons for the control of mobile robots, instinctive sound recognition, texture vision, visual abstraction, genre in cultures, human interaction with virtual world, intuitive interfaces, exploitive interaction, and agents for smart environments.

Structure Discovery in Natural Language
Structure Discovery in Natural Language

Author: Chris Biemann

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-12-08

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 3642259235

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Current language technology is dominated by approaches that either enumerate a large set of rules, or are focused on a large amount of manually labelled data. The creation of both is time-consuming and expensive, which is commonly thought to be the reason why automated natural language understanding has still not made its way into “real-life” applications yet. This book sets an ambitious goal: to shift the development of language processing systems to a much more automated setting than previous works. A new approach is defined: what if computers analysed large samples of language data on their own, identifying structural regularities that perform the necessary abstractions and generalisations in order to better understand language in the process? After defining the framework of Structure Discovery and shedding light on the nature and the graphic structure of natural language data, several procedures are described that do exactly this: let the computer discover structures without supervision in order to boost the performance of language technology applications. Here, multilingual documents are sorted by language, word classes are identified, and semantic ambiguities are discovered and resolved without using a dictionary or other explicit human input. The book concludes with an outlook on the possibilities implied by this paradigm and sets the methods in perspective to human computer interaction. The target audience are academics on all levels (undergraduate and graduate students, lecturers and professors) working in the fields of natural language processing and computational linguistics, as well as natural language engineers who are seeking to improve their systems.

Speech Technology
Speech Technology

Author: Fang Chen

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-07-01

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 0387738193

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This book gives an overview of the research and application of speech technologies in different areas. One of the special characteristics of the book is that the authors take a broad view of the multiple research areas and take the multidisciplinary approach to the topics. One of the goals in this book is to emphasize the application. User experience, human factors and usability issues are the focus in this book.

Technologies for Inclusive Education: Beyond Traditional Integration Approaches
Technologies for Inclusive Education: Beyond Traditional Integration Approaches

Author: Griol Barres, David

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2012-11-30

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1466625317

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By providing students with the opportunities to receive a high quality education regardless of their social or cultural background, inclusive education is a new area that goes beyond traditional integration approaches. These approaches hope to provide the educative system with the ability to adapt to the diversity of its students. Technologies for Inclusive Education: Beyond Traditional Integration Approaches introduces the basic concepts, current research guidelines and future perspectives on the current state of these approaches. This book aims to make inclusive education a reality in the future by highlighting technological advances in applied e-learning, cognitive learning and education multimedia. Novel approaches to human-computer interaction are essential to make these contents available for every student regardless of their disabilities and learning styles.