Introducing Speech and Language Processing by John Coleman is a textbook on language processing and speech technology. The book provides a clear and concise introduction to speech and language processing, suitable for students without technical prior knowledge. It covers fundamental topics in language processing and speech, such as digital signal processing, speech analysis, automatic speech recognition, parsing, and probabilistic grammars.
About the book
This textbook explains in an accessible way how language processing and speech technology work. In addition to theoretical concepts, the book makes practically applicable knowledge possible through examples in C and Prolog. The included CD-ROM contains the required software, including a C compiler, Prolog interpreter, and audio editor. This makes it a complete resource for self-study in language processing.
Product specifications
- Author: John Coleman (University of Oxford)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Binding type: Trade paperback (US)
- Publication date: 2005-03-03
- Number of pages: 314
- ISBN: 9780521530699
- Topic: Natural language and machine translation
- BISAC: COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / Natural Language Processing
About the author
John Coleman is Director of the Phonetics Laboratory and Reader in Phonetics at the University of Oxford.