Computational and corpus linguistics

This edited collection reflects on the development of Chinese corpus-based translation and interpreting studies while emphasising perspectives emerging from a region that has traditionally been given scant consideration in English-language dominated literature.

This volume offers a diachronic sociolinguistic perspective on one of the most complex and fascinating variable speech phenomena in contemporary French.

This volume presents new conceptual and experimental studies which investigate the connection between vagueness and rationality from various systematic directions, such as philosophy, linguistics, cognitive psychology, computing science, and economics.

The general focus of this book is on multimodal communication, which captures the temporal patterns of behavior in various dialogue settings.

This book explains speech enhancement in the Fractional Fourier Transform (FRFT) domain and investigates the use of different FRFT algorithms in both single channel and multi-channel enhancement systems, which has proven to be an ideal time frequency analysis tool in many speech signal processing applications.

This book introduces methods for copyright protection and compression for speech signals.

This book presents multibiometric watermarking techniques for security of biometric data.

This book develops a morphodynamical approach to linguistic and sign structures as an integrated response to multilevel and interrelated problems in semiolinguistic research.

This book is a collective volume that reports the state of the art in the applications of type theory to linguistic semantics.

This book explores how corpus linguistic techniques can be applied to close analysis of videogames as a text, particularly examining how language is used to construct representations of gender in fantasy videogames.

This book covers language modeling and automatic speech recognition for inflective languages (e.

This book covers theoretical work, applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information and its presentation by language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways).

This book offers a linguistic-semantic analysis of the expression 'Eastern Europe' in international English-language media discourse and academic discourse.

This book explores some of the ethical, legal, and social implications of chatbots, or conversational artificial agents.

This book explores the grammar of to infinitives and gerundial -ing clauses, which is a central area at the interface of syntax and semantics, against the background of what has been called the Great Complement Shift.

This book discusses the contribution of articulatory and excitation source information in discriminating sound units.

Future technical systems will be companion systems, competent assistants that provide their functionality in a completely individualized way, adapting to a user's capabilities, preferences, requirements, and current needs, and taking into account both the emotional state and the situation of the individual user.

This book provides a broad and comprehensive overview of the existing technical approaches in the area of silent speech interfaces (SSI), both in theory and in application.

The two-volume set LNCS 10761 + 10762 constitutes revised selected papers from the CICLing 2017 conference which took place in Budapest, Hungary, in April 2017.

This updated book expands upon prosody for recognition applications of speech processing.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SNLP-2016), held in Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya, Thailand on February 10-12, 2016.

This book provides insights into how deep learning techniques impact language and speech processing applications.

The book covers theoretical work, approaches, applications, and techniques for computational models of information, language, and reasoning.

This book develops a morphodynamical approach to linguistic and sign structures as an integrated response to multilevel and interrelated problems in semiolinguistic research.

This edited volume provides a platform for experts from various fields to introduce and discuss their different perspectives on the topic of teamwork and collaborative problem solving.

This book showcases fresh research into the underexplored territory of complementation through a detailed analysis of gerunds and 'to' infinitives involving control in English.

This book provides an overview of a recent and flexible approach to speech synthesis design to develop the first statistical parametric speech synthesizer for Ibibio, a West African tonal language.

This book fills a significant gap in the field by addressing the topic of absence in discourse.

This volume unpacks an intriguing challenge for the field of media research: combining media research with the study of complex networks.

The two-volume set LNCS 10761 + 10762 constitutes revised selected papers from the CICLing 2017 conference which took place in Budapest, Hungary, in April 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference, NooJ 2017, held in Kenitra and Rabat, Morocco, in May 2017.

This book explores how language constructs the meaning and praxis of security in the 21st century.

This edited collection brings together the latest research on discourse and society in Latin America and Caribbean in one volume.

This book presents techniques  for audio search, aimed to  retrieve information from massive speech databases by using audio query words.

This edited collection draws on case studies from around the world to shed light on the sometimes contentious topic of populism.

This book re-examines the notion of word associations, more precisely collocations.

Dieses Lehrbuch widmet sich mit Leidenschaft einem modernen Kernthema der kognitiven Psychologie bzw.

Christoph Moss und Jill-Catrin Heurich betrachten das Phänomen, dass die Verfasser von Blogs eine eigene Sprache mit spezifischen Darstellungsformen entwickeln, in einer empirischen Untersuchung.

This book provides an overview of a range of quantitative methods, presenting a thorough analytical toolbox which will be of practical use to researchers across the social sciences as they face the challenges raised by new technology-driven language practices.

In over 30 years of data-driven learning (DDL) research, there has been a growing sophistication in the ways we collect, analyse, and put corpus data to use.

Published in 2005, Michael Hoey's Lexical Priming - A new theory of words and language introduced a completely new theory of language based on how words are used in the real world.

This book examines in detail the forms and functions of clause combination in English.

This book explores the affordances of disciplinary corpora for the teaching and learning of the language of dentistry, within the field of English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP).

The aim of this book is to present a comprehensive picture of the current state of Spanish learner corpus research (SLCR), which makes it unique, since no other monograph has focused on collecting research dealing with learner corpora of any language other than English.

This book is a textbook on R, a programming language and environment for statistical analysis and visualization.

From Twitter to Reddit, Facebook, and WhatsApp - social media is a part of modern everyday life.

This book studies Chinese opposites.

The use of corpora has conventionally been envisioned as being either corpus-based or corpus-driven.

With an ever-growing body of corpus linguistic tools, resources and applications, it becomes increasingly important to reflect critically on the underlying assumptions that corpus linguistics is based on.

This book provides a refreshing perspective on the description, study and representation of consonant clusters in Polish.