Ebook: Natural Language and Speech: Symposium Proceedings Brussels, November 26/27, 1991

This volume in the Basic Research Series consists of the proceedings of the Symposium on Natural Language and Speech held during the ESPRIT Conference of November 1991 - a conference that serves to open up ESPRIT results not only to the ESPRIT community but also to the entire European IT industry and its users. The symposium is organised by the newly launched Network of Excellence on Language and Speech (3701) which brings together the foremost European experts and institutions in these two domains. By bringing together these two communities, which have so far been working in relative isolation from each other, the network aims to augment the focusing of research onto the long-term goal of the "construction of an integrated model of the cognitive chain linking speech to reasoning via natural language". To advance towards this industrially significant goal, the network operates at different levels - a strategy for research, a coordination for the training of needed researchers and a coordination of the use of its resource and communication infrastructure for the most efficient interworking of the members of the community who are spread all over Europe. This symposium is a small but significant building block for the achievement of the goals of the network.

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This volume presents the proceedings of the Symposium on Natural Language and Speech held during the ESPRIT conference of November 1991. The symposiumwas organized by the newly launched Network of Excellence on Language and Speech which brings together the foremost European experts and institutions in the two domains. The proceedings contain ten invited papers from leading experts in language and speech research, together with a set of position papers from a panel session on 'Spoken language systems:technological goals and integration issues'. The papers cover a wide spectrum of research topics, ranging from logical aspects of discourse structure to problems of prosody and automatic speech understanding. A recurrent theme is the development of an integrated cognitively motivated theory of the process by which spoken language is understood. This volume is the second of the ESPRIT Basic Research Series. The ESPRIT Basic Research efforts aim at forging stronglinks between academic and industrial teams carrying out research, often interdisciplinary, at the forefront of information technology. The quality of content of this series and its broad distribution should have a majorimpact in making these advances accessible to both academic and industrial researchers.

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This volume presents the proceedings of the Symposium on Natural Language and Speech held during the ESPRIT conference of November 1991. The symposiumwas organized by the newly launched Network of Excellence on Language and Speech which brings together the foremost European experts and institutions in the two domains. The proceedings contain ten invited papers from leading experts in language and speech research, together with a set of position papers from a panel session on 'Spoken language systems:technological goals and integration issues'. The papers cover a wide spectrum of research topics, ranging from logical aspects of discourse structure to problems of prosody and automatic speech understanding. A recurrent theme is the development of an integrated cognitively motivated theory of the process by which spoken language is understood. This volume is the second of the ESPRIT Basic Research Series. The ESPRIT Basic Research efforts aim at forging stronglinks between academic and industrial teams carrying out research, often interdisciplinary, at the forefront of information technology. The quality of content of this series and its broad distribution should have a majorimpact in making these advances accessible to both academic and industrial researchers.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-viii
The Trend towards Statistical Models in Natural Language Processing....Pages 1-7
Phonological Data Types....Pages 9-20
Surface Structure, Intonation, and “Focus”....Pages 21-38
Lexical Issues in Natural Language Processing....Pages 39-68
Linguistic Theory and Natural Language Processing....Pages 69-83
Parametric Variation....Pages 85-94
Approaches to Realisation in Natural Language Generation....Pages 95-116
Deductive Interpretation....Pages 117-133
On the Representation and Transmission of Information....Pages 135-158
Natural Language: From Knowledge to Cognition....Pages 159-171
Spoken Language Systems: Technological Goals and Integration Issues....Pages 173-188
Back Matter....Pages 189-192

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This volume presents the proceedings of the Symposium on Natural Language and Speech held during the ESPRIT conference of November 1991. The symposiumwas organized by the newly launched Network of Excellence on Language and Speech which brings together the foremost European experts and institutions in the two domains. The proceedings contain ten invited papers from leading experts in language and speech research, together with a set of position papers from a panel session on 'Spoken language systems:technological goals and integration issues'. The papers cover a wide spectrum of research topics, ranging from logical aspects of discourse structure to problems of prosody and automatic speech understanding. A recurrent theme is the development of an integrated cognitively motivated theory of the process by which spoken language is understood. This volume is the second of the ESPRIT Basic Research Series. The ESPRIT Basic Research efforts aim at forging stronglinks between academic and industrial teams carrying out research, often interdisciplinary, at the forefront of information technology. The quality of content of this series and its broad distribution should have a majorimpact in making these advances accessible to both academic and industrial researchers.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-viii
The Trend towards Statistical Models in Natural Language Processing....Pages 1-7
Phonological Data Types....Pages 9-20
Surface Structure, Intonation, and “Focus”....Pages 21-38
Lexical Issues in Natural Language Processing....Pages 39-68
Linguistic Theory and Natural Language Processing....Pages 69-83
Parametric Variation....Pages 85-94
Approaches to Realisation in Natural Language Generation....Pages 95-116
Deductive Interpretation....Pages 117-133
On the Representation and Transmission of Information....Pages 135-158
Natural Language: From Knowledge to Cognition....Pages 159-171
Spoken Language Systems: Technological Goals and Integration Issues....Pages 173-188
Back Matter....Pages 189-192
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