In its nine chapters, this book provides an overview of the state-of-the-art and best practice in several sub-fields of evaluation of text and speech systems and components. The evaluation aspects covered include speech and speaker recognition, speech synthesis, animated talking agents, part-of-speech tagging, parsing, and natural language software like machine translation, information retrieval, question answering, spoken dialogue systems, data resources, and annotation schemes. With its broad coverage and original contributions this book is unique in the field of evaluation of speech and language technology.

This book is of particular relevance to advanced undergraduate students, PhD students, academic and industrial researchers, and practitioners.

• ISBN: 1402058160
• ISBN-13: 9781402058165
• Editors : Laila Dybkjr and Holmer Hemsen and Wolfgang Minker
• Language : English
• Format:  Paperback
• Publication Date: 4/1/2008
• Publisher Imprint: Springer
• Price ($AUD): $170.95


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