Ebook: Time Map Phonology: Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech Recognition
Author: Julie Carson-Berndsen (auth.)
- Tags: Computational Linguistics, Signal Image and Speech Processing, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Philology
- Series: Text Speech and Language Technology 5
- Year: 1998
- Publisher: Springer Netherlands
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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This book is a revised version of my doctoral thesis which was submitted in April 1993. The main extension is a chapter on evaluation of the system de scribed in Chapter 8 as this is clearly an issue which was not treated in the original version. This required the collection of data, the development of a concept for diagnostic evaluation of linguistic word recognition systems and, of course, the actual evaluation of the system itself. The revisions made primarily concern the presentation of the latest version of the SILPA system described in an additional Subsection 8. 3, the development environment for SILPA in Sec tion 8. 4, the diagnostic evaluation of the system as an additional Chapter 9. Some updates are included in the discussion of phonology and computation in Chapter 2 and finite state techniques in computational phonology in Chapter 3. The thesis was designed primarily as a contribution to the area of compu tational phonology. However, it addresses issues which are relevant within the disciplines of general linguistics, computational linguistics and, in particular, speech technology, in providing a detailed declarative, computationally inter preted linguistic model for application in spoken language processing. Time Map Phonology is a novel, constraint-based approach based on a two-stage temporal interpretation of phonological categories as events.
Time Map Phonology addresses key areas of sound structure at which the two technologies of natural language processing and speech technology are beginning to converge. Solutions are presented to the problems of how to process words which have not been heard before and how to develop fine-grained knowledge representation and processing techniques for linguistic units smaller than the word. The solutions are based on a careful comparison of linguistic theories and on the investigation of computational techniques for the next generation of flexible spoken language input and output devices. The approach has been fully implemented for the vocabulary of German and subjected to quantitative evaluation.
Time Map Phonology addresses key areas of sound structure at which the two technologies of natural language processing and speech technology are beginning to converge. Solutions are presented to the problems of how to process words which have not been heard before and how to develop fine-grained knowledge representation and processing techniques for linguistic units smaller than the word. The solutions are based on a careful comparison of linguistic theories and on the investigation of computational techniques for the next generation of flexible spoken language input and output devices. The approach has been fully implemented for the vocabulary of German and subjected to quantitative evaluation.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Phonology and Computation....Pages 13-39
Finite State Techniques in Computational Phonology....Pages 41-65
The Event Concept in Time Map Phonology....Pages 67-88
Phonotactic Descriptions and Their Representation....Pages 89-114
Excursus: Constraint-Based Segmental Phonological Parsing....Pages 115-134
Constraint-Based Phonological Parsing: An Event-Based Approach....Pages 135-158
Silpa....Pages 159-172
Evaluation....Pages 173-203
Conclusion....Pages 205-209
Back Matter....Pages 211-247
Time Map Phonology addresses key areas of sound structure at which the two technologies of natural language processing and speech technology are beginning to converge. Solutions are presented to the problems of how to process words which have not been heard before and how to develop fine-grained knowledge representation and processing techniques for linguistic units smaller than the word. The solutions are based on a careful comparison of linguistic theories and on the investigation of computational techniques for the next generation of flexible spoken language input and output devices. The approach has been fully implemented for the vocabulary of German and subjected to quantitative evaluation.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Phonology and Computation....Pages 13-39
Finite State Techniques in Computational Phonology....Pages 41-65
The Event Concept in Time Map Phonology....Pages 67-88
Phonotactic Descriptions and Their Representation....Pages 89-114
Excursus: Constraint-Based Segmental Phonological Parsing....Pages 115-134
Constraint-Based Phonological Parsing: An Event-Based Approach....Pages 135-158
Silpa....Pages 159-172
Evaluation....Pages 173-203
Conclusion....Pages 205-209
Back Matter....Pages 211-247
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