Overview
- An invaluable resource for academia and industry
- Presents for the first time a unified, coherent picture of a completely operational spoken dialog system
- With theoretical and practical foundations: Includes fundamental research and applied innovations in the key areas of speech-to-speech translation
Part of the book series: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Table of contents (47 chapters)
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Front Matter
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From Speech Input to Augmented Word Lattices
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster is the Director and CEO of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) and a Professor of Computer Science at the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken. In 2000, he was coopted as a Professor of Computational Linguistics at the same university. In addition, he is the Head of the Intelligent User Interfaces Lab at DFKI.
He was the Scientific Director of the Verbmobil consortium on spontaneous speech translation (1993-2000), the SmartKom consortium on multimodal dialog systems (1999-2003), and the SmartWeb consortium on mobile multimodal access to semantic web services (2004-2008).
He has authored more than 150 technical papers and 6 books on language technology and intelligent user interfaces, and edited many books, among them the Springer titles "Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-to-Speech Translation", "SmartKom: Foundations of Multimodal Dialogue Systems", and "SemProM: Foundations of Semantic Product Memories for the Internet of Things". His research includes multimodal and perceptive user interfaces, user modeling, embodied conversational agents, smart navigation systems, semantic web services, and resource-adaptive cognitive technologies.
He was awarded the Deutscher Zukunftspreis (German Future Award) in 2001 and he received the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class, the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2006.
He is the Chief Academic Advisor for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the Research Union of the German Government, he is a member or chair of many key international scientific advisory and governance boards, including the National Institute of Informatics (NII) of Japan, the jury for the European ICT Prize of the European Commission, the SingaporeAgency for Science, Technology and Research, the SAP Next Business & Technology Advisory Board, the Center for Advanced Security Research in Darmstadt, the Intel Visual Computing Institute, the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, and the Future Internet Public-Private Partnership of the European Commission.
He is a member of many academies, including the German Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina, Acatech, the Council for Engineering Sciences of the Union of German Academies of Science and Humanities, and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
He has chaired and given invited talks at the key international conferences in computational linguistics and artificial intelligence, he is a board member of the key AI journals, and he is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI), and the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-to-Speech Translation
Editors: Wolfgang Wahlster
Series Title: Artificial Intelligence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04230-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-67783-3Published: 31 July 2000
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08730-1Published: 15 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-04230-4Published: 17 April 2013
Series ISSN: 1431-0066
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 677
Topics: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligence, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Models and Principles, Philosophy, general