Author: Jan W. Amtrup
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: lecture, notes, artificial, intelligence, science, computer, speech, incremental, translation
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2000-01-07
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 3540667539
ISBN-13: 9783540667537

This book describes a complete translation system for spontaneously spoken language, constructed using the incremental paradigm. It starts by presenting the theoretical and algorithmic basis necessary to cope with the complex endeavour of translating speech incrementally and in parallel. In particular, graph-theoretic foundations of natural language processing and feature-based descriptions of linguistic objects are covered. A thorough description of the system and its performance follows. The author covers syntactic and semantic processing as well as transfer and syntactic generation. Thus th