Computational and corpus linguistics

This work presents a discourse-aware Text Simplification approach that splits and rephrases complex English sentences within the semantic context in which they occur.

The book offers a detailed guide to temporal ordering, exploring open problems in the field and providing solutions and extensive analysis.

This book will show how generative technology works and the drivers.

This book examines comic book adaptations of Aristophanes' plays in order to shed light on how and why humour travels across cultures and time.

Computational Methods for Communication Science showcases the use of innovative computational methods in the study of communication.

The book presents current research and developments in multilingual speech recognition.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to reinforcement learning (RL) and bandits methods, specifically tailored for advancements in speech and language technology.

Current progress in linguistic theorizing is more and more informed by cross-linguistic (including cross-modal) investigation.

This book presents the theory of output-driven maps and provides fresh perspectives in an accessible way for students and researchers.

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 provides a systematic, empirical account of the language typically presented in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks, based on a large corpus of EFL textbooks used in secondary schools.

This book sheds new light on chunk in business correspondence in order to promote the advancement of machine translation.

The eleven contributions to this volume, written by expert corpus linguists, tackle corpora from a wide range of perspectives and aim to shed light on the numerous linguistic and pedagogical uses to which corpora can be put.

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

Speech--to--Speech Translation: a Massively Parallel Memory-Based Approach describes one of the world's first successful speech--to--speech machine translation systems.

This book contributes to the discussion of challenges faced in different areas of corpus linguistics, namely the compilation, annotation, and analysis of linguistic corpora.

Applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) concepts to help humans in their daily life, this book discusses an automatic translation of an unstructured Natural Language Question (NLQ) into a Structured Query Language (SQL) statement.

How does human language work?

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

This book describes new methodological and technological approaches to corpus building and presents recent research based on the Norwegian Newspaper Corpus.

"e;Emotion Recognition Using Speech Features"e; provides coverage of emotion-specific features present in speech.

The two-volume set LNCS 13396 and 13397 constitutes revised selected papers from the CICLing 2018 conference which took place in Hanoi, Vietnam, in March 2018.

The subject of the present inquiry is the approach-to-the-truth research, which started with the publication of Sir Karl Popper's Conjectures and Refutations.

This handbook presents an overview of the phenomenon of reference - the ability to refer to and pick out entities - which is an essential part of human language and cognition.

This book presents research and applications on arrival estimation and localization in speech processing to ensure that the broad vision of the direction of arrival estimation (DOAE) / localization of speech sources is well-established.

The edited volume Sequences in Language and Text is the first collection of original research in the area of the quantitative analysis of sequentially organized linguistic data.

The two-volume set LNCS 9623 + 9624 constitutes revised selected papers from the CICLing 2016 conference which took place in Konya, Turkey, in April 2016.

Eine Grundfrage der Wissenschaftsvermittlung ist, ob Experten, Vermittler und Öffentlichkeit von den gleichen Gegenständen reden bzw.

Based on the quantitative analysis of a large corpus of Old and Middle High German prose texts, this volume provides a first extensive overview on the syntactic properties of coordination structures featuring the coordinators inti/und and joh in Old and Middle High German and discusses potential analyses in a generative framework.

The book investigates how machine translation (MT) provides opportunities and increases the willingness to communicate in a foreign language.

Explanations for sound change have traditionally focused on identifying the inception of change, that is, the identification of perturbations of the speech signal, conditioned by physiological constraints on articulatory and/or auditory mechanisms, which affect the way speech sounds are analyzed by the listener.

This book uses computational methods and statistical analysis to challenge traditional assumptions about the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

This book addresses common questions from HCI researchers when trying to do statistical analysis on their data.

This book advances the growing area of language policy and planning (LPP) by examining the epistemological and theoretical foundations that engendered and sustain the field, drawing on insights and approaches from anthropology, linguistics, economics, political science, and education to create an accessible and inter-disciplinary overview of LPP as a coherent discipline.

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

This book is a revised version of my dissertation 'DiaLaw - on legal th justification and dialog games' that I defended on June 5 1998 at the Universiteit Maastricht.