Spoken dialogue systems allow users to interact with computer-based applications such as
databases and expert systems by using natural spoken language. The origins of spoken …

Warum wir Stimmen gerne schwarz auf weiß sehen möchten: Einladung zur
Reflexion............................................................... Kollektives Gedächtnis, Authentizität und …

Conversational information seeking (CIS) is concerned with a sequence of interactions
between one or more users and an information system. Interactions in CIS are primarily …

Volume I is the first of two volumes that document the three components of the CHILDES
Project. It is divided into two parts which provide an introduction to the use of computational …

Corpus Linguistics has quickly established itself as the leading undergraduate course book
in the subject. This second edition takes full account of the latest developments in the rapidly …

The Handbook of Discourse Analysis makes significant contributions to current research and
serves as a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the central issues in contemporary …

The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia is a single-volume encyclopedia covering all major
and subsidiary areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. The 79 entries provide in-depth …

Title description The C-ORAL-ROM book and DVD provide a unique set of comparable
corpora of spontaneous speech for the main Romance languages, French, Italian …

With the growing impact of information technology on daily life, speech is becoming
increasingly important for providing a natural means of communication between humans …

Applications of speech recognition are now widespread, but user-centred evaluation
methods are necessary to ensure their success. Objective evaluation techniques are fairly …