TEXT, SPEECH, AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY

Editorial board

Harald Baayen, Max Planck Institute, The Netherlands

David Barnard, University of Regina, Canada

Ken Church, Bell Laboratories, USA

Stig Johansson, University of Oslo, Norway

Judith Klavans, Columbia University, USA

Joaquim Llisterri, Universitat Autonoma di Barcelona, Spain

Joseph Mariani, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

Dan Tufis, Academy of Sciences, Romania

Due to the recent availability of large bodies of text and speech in electronic form, data-based research of all kinds has increased dramatically in areas such as computational linguistics and language engineering (especially corpus-based linguistics), speech, humanities computing, psycho-linguistics, and information retrieval. This series is intended to explore the methodologies and technologies that are emerging as a result of this work. In addition, while each of these disciplines has developed methodologies appropriate to its particular problem area, there is emerging a clearly defined set of technologies and methodologies common to all areas of research involving large quantities of electronic data. The series is particularly concerned with methodologies and technologies with either actual or potential applicability to other areas. The topics covered by the series include but are not limited to:

• encoding and representation of text and speech
• quantitative language studies
• lexicons and ontologies
• morphological analysis and part-of-speech tagging
• grammars and parsing technologies
• information retrieval, document summarization and extraction
• natural language generation
• multimodal language processing
• speech synthesis and speech recognition
• phonological and prosodic analysis
• speaker recognition

The series contains several different types of books, including:

• methodologies, which survey major methodological approaches in a given domain. Many of the methodologies emerging for text-based work have never been considered collectively or comprehensively, and there is a serious need for books which provide an overview of the important approaches to certain problem areas.

• advanced research topics, which treat in depth specific areas of interest or projects at the state of the art. This type of book describes leading edge research on specific topics, whose methodologies may have only just begun to develop.

• tutorials, which provide a general introduction to a particular topic. Because data-based research has developed so rapidly in recent years, there is a large number of researchers who are unfamiliar with basic concepts and approaches. In addition, applicable methodologies which may be well-developed within one discipline are often completely unknown to researchers in another discipline.

Supplementary materials such as software, demonstrations, program libraries, etc. in appropriate forms (diskettes, web sites, etc.) are included where appropriate.

Series contents:

• Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology
  Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita
  Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, August 1996
  
• Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing
  Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft
  Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, February 1997
  
• Volume 3: An Introduction to Text-to-Speech Synthesis
  Thierry Dutoit
  Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7, April 1997
  
• Volume 4: Exploring Textual Data
  Ludovic Lebart, André Salem, 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, December 1997
  
• Volume 6: Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases
  Patrick Saint-Dizier
  Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5499-0, December 1998
  
• Volume 7: Natural Language Information Retrieval
  Tomek Strzalkowski
  Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3, April 1999
  
• Volume 8: Techniques in Speech Acoustics
  Jonathan Harrington, Steve Cassidy
  Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5731-0, June 1999
  
• Volume 9: Syntactic Wordclass Tagging
  Hans van Halteren
  Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5896-1, August 1999
  
• Volume 10: Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons
  Evelyne Viegas
  Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6039-7, November 1999
  
• Volume 11: Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora
  Susan Armstrong, Kenneth W. Church, Pierre Isabelle, Sandra Manzi, Evelyne Tzoukermann, David Yarowsky
  Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6055-9, November 1999
  
• Volume 12: Lexicon Development for Speech and Language Processing
  Frank Van Eynde, Dafydd Gibbon
  Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6368-X, May 2000
  
• Volume 13: Parallel Text Processing: Alignment and Use of Translation Corpora
  Jean Véronis
  Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6546-1, September 2000
  
• Volume 14: Prosody: Theory and Experiment - Studies Presented to Gösta Bruce
  Merle Horne
  Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6579-8, October 2000
  
• Volume 15: Intonation: Analysis, Modelling and Technology
  Antonis Botinis
  Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6605-0, November 2000
  Paperback, ISBN 0-7923-6723-5, November 2000
  
• Volume 16: Advances in Probabilistic and Other Parsing Technologies
  Harry Bunt, Anton Nijholt
  Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6616-6, October 2000
  
• Volume 17: Robustness in Language and Speech Technology
  Jean-Claude Junqua, Gertjan van Noord
  Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6790-1, February 2001
  
• Volume 18: Word Frequency Distributions
  R. Harald Baayen
  Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-7017-1, July 2001
  
• Volume 19: Multimodality in Language and Speech Systems
  Bjöaut;rn Granströaut;m, David House, Inger Karlsson
  Hardbound, ISBN 1-4020-0635-7, June 2002

Also of interest:

• The Text Encoding Initiative: Background and Context. N. Ide and J. Véronis (Eds.)

For more information on this series or to discuss publishing in the series contact:

or visit the Kluwer TSLT site