Shall We Play the Festschrift Game?

Wanjiku Ng'ang'a

There are not many people who can be said to have influenced and impressed researchers in so many disparate areas and language-geographic fields as Lauri Carlson, as is evidenced in the present Festschrift. His insight and acute linguistic sensitivity and linguistic...

Information Security for Automatic Speaker Identification

Fathi E. Abd El-Samie

The author covers the fundamentals of both information and communication security including current developments in some of the most critical areas of automatic speech recognition. Included are topics on speech watermarking, speech encryption, steganography, multilevel...

Syntax-Based Collocation Extraction

Violeta Seretan

Syntax-Based Collocation Extraction is the first book to offer a comprehensive, up-to-date review of the theoretical and applied work on word collocations. Backed by solid theoretical results, the computational experiments described based on data in four languages...

Trends in Parsing Technology

Harry Bunt , Paola Merlo , Joakim Nivre

Computer parsing technology, which breaks down complex linguistic structures into their constituent parts, is a key research area in the automatic processing of human language. This volume is a collection of contributions from leading researchers in the field of natural...

Genres on the Web

Alexander Mehler , Marina Santini , Serge Sharoff

The volume “Genres on the Web” has been designed for a wide audience, from the expert to the novice. It is a required book for scholars, researchers and students who want to become acquainted with the latest theoretical, empirical and computational advances in the...

Linguistic Modeling of Information and Markup Languages

Dieter Metzing , Andreas Witt

Guide to OCR for Indic Scripts

Venu Govindaraju , Srirangaraj (Ranga) Setlur

Words and Intelligence II

Khurshid Ahmad , Christopher Brewster , Mark Stevenson

It has been said of the brothers Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt that between them they were the last people to have known all that there was to know, to have had a mastery of the best that contemporary science knew and to have made significant contributions, to be...

The Integration of Phonetic Knowledge in Speech Technology

William J. Barry , Wim A. Van Dommelen

Continued progress in Speech Technology in the face of ever-increasing demands on the performance levels of applications is a challenge to the whole speech and language science community. Robust recognition and understanding of spontaneous speech in varied environments,...