Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition
This book is an absolute necessity for instructors at all levels, as
well as an indispensable reference for researchers. Introducing NLP,
computational linguistics, and speech recognition comprehensively in a
single book is an ambitious enterprise. The authors have managed it
admirably, paying careful attention to traditional foundations,
relating recent developments and trends to those foundations, and tying
it all together with insight and humor. Remarkable.(Amazon.com).
Contexts: Meaning, Truth, and the Use of Language by Stefano Predelli
Book Description
Stefano Predelli comes to the defence of
the traditional 'formal' approach to natural-language semantics,
arguing that it has been misrepresented not only by its critics, but
also by its foremost defenders. In Contexts he offers a fundamental
reappraisal, with particular attention to the treatment of indexicality
and other forms of contextual dependence which have been the focus of
much recent controversy. Predelli shows how his metasemantic approach
deals with a variety of important semantic and philosophical puzzles.
He analyses the relationship between indexicality and logical validity,
discussing well-known problem cases, and demonstrating the limits of
token-reflexive systems. He investigates the relationships between
truth-conditions and assignments of truth-values at particular points
of evaluation, and shows that so-called contextualist worries do not
undermine the traditional semantic approach. Finally, he shows that
semantic befuddlement about the interpretation of attitude reports is
based on an inadequate understanding of the scope of natural language
semantics. Contexts will be of great interest to all philosophers of
language, and to many linguists. (Amazon.com)
Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm and System Development
Offers coverage of new advances in spoken language processing in computer science, drawing on the most recent discoveries in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, and other fields. Covers speech recognition, speech processing, spoken language understanding, speech synthesis, and speech interface design.
The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences This volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the key topics of the phonetic sciences. Contributions by many of the leading researchers in the field cover both theoretical and applied areas of speech communication.
There are contributions on experimental phonetics, including aerodynamics of speech, speech signal processing, laboratory techniques and acoustic phonetics, as well as discussions of speech technology applications in areas such as automatic recognition of speech and speakers, and speech synthesis. Following are chapters on the biological foundations of speech and hearing, such as brain functions underlying speech, auditory neural processing, and articulatory processes in speech production.
A section on theoretical approaches in phonetic sciences addresses aspects of spoken word recognition, coarticulation, articulatory/acoustic/auditory relationships and laryngeal function. The next section, linguistic phonetics, covers descriptive criteria in general phonetics and the relationship between phonetics and other areas of linguistics, such as phonology. The final selection contains contributions on speech technology, ranging from speech signal processing to speech synthesis.
The volume represents an unparalleled resource to students and specialists in linguistics, phonetics and psychology, speech and language therapists and speech technologists.
Modern English linguistics: A structural and transformational grammar by John P Broderick Modern English Linguistics showed how transformational grammar developed
out of American structuralist morphology and syntax. It then went on
to describe English grammar in some detail using the so-called "extended
standard theory" of transformational grammar described in Noam Chomsky's
book, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Despite considerable changes
in Chomsky's ideas in the 1980s and 1990s (as for example, government and
binding theory), linguistics textbooks continued to be published well into
the 1990s that were still based on the Aspects model.
