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                            KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
                       TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
                                   Volume 12
                  Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis

          Lexicon Development for Speech and Language Processing

                                 edited by

                               Frank van Eynde
                                Dafydd Gibbon

    This book offers a state-of-the-art survey of methods and techniques for
    structuring, acquiring and maintaining lexical resources for speech and
    language processing.

    The first chapter provides a broad survey of the field of computational
    lexicography, introducing most of the issues, terms and topics which are
    addressed in more detail in the rest of the book. The next two chapters
    focus on the structure and the content of man-made lexicons, concentrating
    respectively on (morpho-)syntactic and (morpho-)phonological information.
    Both chapters adopt a declarative constraint-based methodology and pay
    ample attention to the various ways in which lexical generalizations can be
    formalized and exploited to enhance the consistency and to reduce the
    redundancy of lexicons. A complementary perspective is offered in the next
    two chapters, which present techniques for automatically deriving lexical
    resources from text corpora. These chapters adopt an inductive
    data-oriented methodology and focus also on methods for tokenization,
    lemmatization and shallow parsing. The next three chapters focus on speech
    synthesis and speech recognition. The last chapter takes a psycholinguistic
    perspective and addresses the relation between storage and computation in
    the mental lexicon.

    The relevance of these topics for speech and language processing is
    obvious, for since NLP systems need large lexica in order to achieve
    reasonable coverage, and since the construction and maintenance of
    large-size lexical resources is a complex and costly task, it is of crucial
    importance for those who design or build such systems to be aware of the
    latest developments in this fast-moving field.

    The intended audience for this book includes advanced students and
    professional scientists working in the areas of computational linguistics
    and language and speech technology.

    Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht

        * Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6368-X
          April 2000, 298 pp.
          NLG 240.00 / USD 128.00 / GBP 79.00

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    Contents and Contributors

    - Computational Lexicography; D. Gibbon.

    - Constraint-Based Lexica; G. Bouma, et al.

    - Phonology-Based Lexical Knowledge Representation; L. Cahill, et al.

    - Inductive Lexica; W. Daelemans, G. Durieux.

    - Recognizing Lexical Patterns in Text; G. Grefenstette, et al.

    - Speech Databases; C. Draxler.

    - The Use of Lexica in Text-To-Speech Systems; S. Quazza, H.v.d. Heuvel.

    - The Use of Lexica in Automatic Speech Recognition; M. Adda-Decker, L. Lamel.

    - Morphology in the Mental Lexicon: A Computational Model for Visual Word
    Recognition; R.H. Baayen, et al.

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                                 PREVIOUS VOLUMES

        Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology
                   Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita (Eds.)
                   Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996

        Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing
                   Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft (Eds.)
                   Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997

        Volume 3: An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis
                   Thierry Dutoit
                   Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7, 1997

        Volume 4: Exploring textual data
                   Ludovic Lebart, André Salem and Lisette Berry
                   Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4840-0, December 1997

        Volume 5: Time Map Phonology:
                   Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech
                   Recognition
                   Julie Carson-Berndsen
                   Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4883-4, 1997

        Volume 6: Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in
                   Lexical Knowledge Bases
                   Patrick Saint-Dizier (Ed.)
                   Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5499-0, December 1998

        Volume 7: Natural Language Information Retrieval
                   Tomek Strzalkowski (Ed.)
                   Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3, April 1999

        Volume 8: Techniques in Speech Acoustics
                   Jonathan Harrington, Steve Cassidy
                   Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5731-0, July 1999

        Volume 9: Syntactic Wordclass Tagging
                   Hans van Halteren (Ed.)
                   Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5896-1, August 1999

        Volume 10: Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons
                   Viegas, E. (Ed.)
                   Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6039-7, November 1999

        Volume 11: Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora
                   Armstrong, S., Church, K.W., Isabelle, P.,
                   Manzi, S., Tzoukermann, E., Yarowsky, D. (Eds.)
                   Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6055-9, November 1999

    Check the series Web page for order information:

        http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB

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