Mobile Speech and Advanced Natural Language Solutions

This book covers advances in natural language processing. It includes coverage of practical real-world speech applications found in spoken dialog systems, personal assistants, smartphones and other speech systems.

"Mobile Speech and Advanced Natural Language Solutions" presents the discussion of the most recent advances in intelligent human-computer interaction, including fascinating new study findings on talk-in-interaction, which is the province of conversation analysis, a subfield in sociology/sociolinguistics, a new and emerging area in natural language understanding. Editors Amy Neustein and Judith A. Markowitz have recruited a talented group of contributors to introduce the next generation natural language technologies for practical speech processing applications that serve the consumer’s need for well-functioning natural language-driven personal assistants and other mobile devices, while also addressing business’ need for better functioning IVR-driven call centers that yield a more satisfying experience for the caller. This anthology is aimed at two distinct audiences: one consisting of speech engineers and system developers; the other comprised of linguists and cognitive scientists. The text builds on the experience and knowledge of each of these audiences by exposing them to the work of the other.

Preface.- Beyond Siri: Exploring Spoken Language in Warehouse Operations, Offender Monitoring and Robotics.- Speech’s Evolving Role in Consumer Electronics…From Toys to Mobile.- The Personal-Assistant Model: Unifying the Technology Experience.- Natural Language Processing: Past, Present and Future.- Sequence Package Analysis: A New Natural Language Method for Mining User-Generated Content for Mobile Uses.- Getting Past the Language Gap: Innovations in Machine Translation.- Natural Language Technology in Mobile Devices: Two Grounding Frameworks.- Empirical Exploration of Language Modeling for the google.com Query Stream as Applied to Mobile Voice Search.- Information Extraction: Robust Mention Detection Systems.- A Name is Worth a Thousand Pictures: Referential Practice in Human Interactions with Internet Search Engines.- Summarizing Opinion-Related Information for Mobile Devices.- Mobile Speech and the Armed Services: Making a Case for Adding Siri-like Features to VAMTA (Voice-Activated Medical Tracking Application).- Revisiting TTS – New Directions for Better Synthesis.- “Super- Natural” Language Dialogues: In Search of Integration.- Editors’ biographies.