Lexicon Development for Speech and Language Processing

Eynde, Frank Van (Editor)/ Gibbon, Dafydd (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0792363698 / ISBN 13: 9780792363699

Published by Kluwer Academic Pub, 2009

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Title: Lexicon Development for Speech and Language ...

Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Publication Date: 2009

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis:

This work offers a survey of methods and techniques for structuring, acquiring and maintaining lexical resources for speech and language processing. The first chapter provides a broad survey of the field of computational lexicography, introducing most of the issues, terms and topics which are addressed in more detail in the rest of the book. The next two chapters focus on the structure and the content of man-made lexicons, concentrating respectively on (morpho-)syntactic and (morpho-)phonological information. Both chapters adopt a declarative constraint-based methodology and pay ample attention to the various ways in which lexical generalizations can be formalized and exploited to enhance the consistency and to reduce the redundancy of lexicons. A complementary perspective is offered in the next two chapters, which present techniques for automatically deriving lexical resources from text corpora. These chapters adopt an inductive data-oriented methodology and focus also on methods for tokenization, lemmatization and shallow parsing. The next three chapters focus on speech synthesis and speech recognition. The last chapter takes a psycholinguistic perspective and addresses the relation between storage and computation in the mental lexicon. The work should be helpful for advanced students and professional scientists working in the areas of computational linguistics and language and speech technology.

About the Author:

Frank Van Eynde is professor in the Center for Computational Linguistics at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is the editor or coeditor of several books, including, most recently, "Lexicon Development for Speech and Language Processing".