Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Corpus-Based Statistical Methods in Speech and Language Processing

   • H. Ney

   Pages 1-26

3. Hidden Markov Models in Speech and Language Processing

   • K. Knill, S. Young

   Pages 27-68

4. Spoken Language Dialogue Systems

   • E. Giachin, S. McGlashan

   Pages 69-117

5. Part-of-Speech Tagging and Partial Parsing

   • S. Abney

   Pages 118-136

6. Data-Oriented Language Processing

   • R. Bod, R. Scha

   Pages 137-173

7. Statistical Language Modeling Using Leaving-One-Out

   • H. Ney, S. Martin, F. Wessel

   Pages 174-207

8. Back Matter

   Pages 208-235

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Corpus-based methods will be found at the heart of many language and speech processing systems. This book provides an in-depth introduction to these technologies through chapters describing basic statistical modeling techniques for language and speech, the use of Hidden Markov Models in continuous speech recognition, the development of dialogue systems, part-of-speech tagging and partial parsing, data-oriented parsing and n-gram language modeling.
The book attempts to give both a clear overview of the main technologies used in language and speech processing, along with sufficient mathematics to understand the underlying principles. There is also an extensive bibliography to enable topics of interest to be pursued further. Overall, we believe that the book will give newcomers a solid introduction to the field and it will give existing practitioners a concise review of the principal technologies used in state-of-the-art language and speech processing systems.
Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing is an initiative of ELSNET, the European Network in Language and Speech. In its activities, ELSNET attaches great importance to the integration of language and speech, both in research and in education. The need for and the potential of this integration are well demonstrated by this publication.

• Parsing
• hidden markov model
• information
• language
• modeling
• speech processing
• speech recognition

• Engineering Department, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

  Steve Young

• Research Institute for Language and Speech, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  Gerrit Bloothooft

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