Unique and original collection of chapters on text and speech systems evaluation
Broad coverage of the field of text and speech systems and their evaluation
Includes chapters on language resources and standard
Benefit to those working in the broad area of speech and language technology evaluation
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.
Speech and Speaker Recognition Evaluation.- Evaluation of Speech Synthesis.- Modelling and Evaluating Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication in Talking Animated Interface Agents.- Evaluating Part-of-Speech Tagging and Parsing Patrick Paroubek.- General Principles of User-Oriented Evaluation Margaret King.- An Overview of Evaluation Methods in TREC Ad Hoc Information Retrieval and TREC Question Answering.- Spoken Dialogue Systems Evaluation.- Linguistic Resources, Development, and Evaluation of Text and Speech Systems.- Towards International Standards for Language Resources Nancy Ide and Laurent Romary.
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.
Aus den Rezensionen:
"... Für Leser, die mit korpuslinguistischer Forschung der letzten beiden Jahrzehnte weniger vertraut sind, liefert Christopher Cieris Beitrag eine leicht lesbare Einführung in das Feld, die kurz und prägnant skizziert, welche linguistischen Ressourcen heutzutage zur Verfügung stehen. ... als eine Grundlage für die nachhaltige Verwendung bestehender und für die Kompilierung neuer Korpora verwendet werden sollte. ... als eine nützliche Einführung in diese Gebiete für solche Leser dienen, die über wenig Vorwissen im Bereich der Sprach- und Texttechnologie verfügen ..." (in: Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft, 2011, Vol. 3, Issue 1, S. 36 f.)
Aus den Rezensionen:
"... Für Leser, die mit korpuslinguistischer Forschung der letzten beiden Jahrzehnte weniger vertraut sind, liefert Christopher Cieris Beitrag eine leicht lesbare Einführung in das Feld, die kurz und prägnant skizziert, welche linguistischen Ressourcen heutzutage zur Verfügung stehen. ... als eine Grundlage für die nachhaltige Verwendung bestehender und für die Kompilierung neuer Korpora verwendet werden sollte. ... als eine nützliche Einführung in diese Gebiete für solche Leser dienen, die über wenig Vorwissen im Bereich der Sprach- und Texttechnologie verfügen ..." (in: Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft, 2011, Vol. 3, Issue 1, S. 36 f.)
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Speech and Speaker Recognition Evaluation.- Evaluation of Speech Synthesis.- Modelling and Evaluating Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication in Talking Animated Interface Agents.- Evaluating Part-of-Speech Tagging and Parsing Patrick Paroubek.- General Principles of User-Oriented Evaluation Margaret King.- An Overview of Evaluation Methods in TREC Ad Hoc Information Retrieval and TREC Question Answering.- Spoken Dialogue Systems Evaluation.- Linguistic Resources, Development, and Evaluation of Text and Speech Systems.- Towards International Standards for Language Resources Nancy Ide and Laurent Romary.
Klappentext
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.
Unique and original collection of chapters on text and speech systems evaluation
Broad coverage of the field of text and speech systems and their evaluation
Includes chapters on language resources and standard
Benefit to those working in the broad area of speech and language technology evaluation
