Where Humans Meet Machines Innovative Solutions for Knotty Natural-Language Problems /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Neustein, Amy. (Editor), Markowitz, Judith A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computational linguistics.; Production of electric energy or power.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Computational Linguistics.; Machinery and Machine Elements.; Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6934-6

Where Humans Meet Machines: Innovative Solutions for Knotty Natural-Language Problems brings humans and machines closer together by showing how linguistic complexities that confound the speech systems of today can be handled effectively by sophisticated natural-language technology. Some of the most...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Making the Case for an Open, Unified System Architecture in Response to Rapid Developments in the Natural Language Industry: Translingual Automatic Language Exploration System (TALES)
• The Burgeoning of Medical Social-Media Postings and the Need for Improved Natural Language Mapping Tools
• Machine Translation: the Enterprise Point of View
• Speech-Enabled Unified Communications: Overcoming the Multilingual Challenges of the European Market
• Exploiting Lexical Sensitivity in Performing Word-Sense Disambiguation
• Summarizing Short Texts through a Discourse-Centered Approach in a Multilingual Context
• Handling Two Difficult Challenges for Text-to-Speech Synthesis Systems:� Out-of-Vocabulary Words and Prosody
• A Case Study in Romanian
• MAP: An Abstraction-Based Metaphor Analysis Program for Overcoming Cross-Modal Challenges
• Translation of Idiomatic Expressions across Different Languages: A Study of the Effectiveness of TransSearch
• Argumentation-Based Dialog Systems for Medical Training
• Design of Dialog-Based Intelligent Tutoring Systems to Simulate Human-to-Human Tutoring.-�TCAD: Vocabulary Acquisition Tool for Motivating Bilingual Pupils with Hearing Impairments in Learning English
• A Hybrid Approach to Automated Rating of Foreign Language Proficiency Using Oral Test Responses.-�Multilingual Systems, Translation Technology and Their Impact on the Translators Profession
• Editors biographies.