Books and Publications

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Contents

ELSNET publishes various papers and electronic documents. The following documents or document directories are available from ELSNET or via our website:

• Books
• Surveys and policy documents
• Journals
• Proceedings
• Our list of newspapers on the web
• Our list of publications related to language and speech (you can add your own directly)

If you want more information on obtaining hard copy versions of these documents, please contact elsnet@elsnet.org

Books

Corpus-based Methods in Language and Speech Processing

An introduction to corpus-based methods through chapters describing statistical modeling techniques for language and speech, the use of Hidden Markov Models in continuous speech recognition, the development of dialogue systems, part-of-speech tagging and partial parsing, data-oriented parsing and n-gram language modeling.

Edited by Steve Young and Gerrit Bloothooft (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997)

The book is based on the ELSNET Summer School 1994 in Utrecht, The Netherlands

Lexicon Development for Speech and Language Processing

This book offers a state-of-the-art survey of methods and techniques for structuring, acquiring and maintaining lexical resources for speech and language processing.

Edited by Frank Van Eynde and Dafydd Gibbon (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000)

The book is based on the ELSNET Summer School 1997 in Leuven, Belgium

Robustness in Language and Speech Processing

This book addresses robustness issues at the speech recognition and natural language parsing levels, with a focus on feature extraction and noise robust recognition, adaptive systems, language modeling, parsing, and natural language understanding.

Edited by Jean-Claude Junqua and Gertjan van Noord (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001)

The book is based on the ELSNET Summer School 1998 in Barcelona (Spain)

Multimodality in Language and Speech Systems

Edited by Björn Granström, David House, Inger Karlsson, and published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.

The book is based on the ELSNET Summer School 1999 in Stockholm (Sweden)

Text- and Speech-triggered Information Access

Edited by Steve Renals and Gregory Grefenstette (Springer Verlag, 2003)
This book is based on the ELSNET 2000 Summer School on Chios Island (Greece)

Evaluation of Text and Speech Systems

Edited by Laila Dybkjaer, Holmer Hemsen  and Wolfgang Minker (to be published by Springer)
This book is based on the ELSNET 2002 Summer School in Odense (Denmark)

Special Offer: Corpus Based Methods AND Lexicon Development together for 59 EURO!

Surveys and Policy Documents

ELSNET Network Programme 1996-2000

This document is an HTML version of ELSNET's Work Programme for the period 1996-2000.

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ELSNET Description of Work 2000-2002

This document describes ELSNET's objectives and workplan for the period 2000-2002.

MS Word source of the same document.

 

Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology

A PDF version (1997) of a study sponsored by the US National Science Foundation, Directorate XIII-E of the Commission of the European Communities, and the Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon Graduate Institute.

 

Central and Eastern European Language and Speech Survey

An overview of partners in the field of Language and Speech in Central and Eastern Europe (Russia not yet included)

 

Guide to the Language and Speech Domain in Russia

Catalogue of teams and products, compiled by Vera Fluhr (SCIPER, F), with support from ELSNET and ELRA

Provisional URL: http://schools.keldysh.ru/uvk1838/Sciper/catalog.htm

 

Journals

ELSNews (currently inactive)

ELSNET's quarterly newsletter.

WEB-SLS: European Student Journal of Language and Speech (phased out)

A web-based journal for students on speech and language engineering.

Published jointly with EACL and ISCA.

Edited by Mark Tatham (Essex)

HLTheses (currently inactive)

Successor of WEB-SLS, collection of thesis summaries in the field of Human Language Technologies

Edited by Nikos Fakotakis (Patras)

Proceedings

Spoken Language Translation

Proceedings of a workshop sponsored by the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) and by ELSNET. Edited by Steven Krauwer, Doug Arnold a.o.(Madrid, Spain, 1997)

ELSNET in Wonderland

Proceedings of the ELSNET conference on capabilities of language and speech in the Multilingual Information Society, organised by ELSNET (Soesterberg, The Netherlands, 1998)

Towards a European Infrastructure for NL and Speech

Proceedings of a workshop jointly organised by ELSNET and the LE-4 project ELSE. The selected topics include the multilingual nature of evaluation, lessons from the past (in Europe and the US), and the need for language resources. (LREC, Granada, Spain, 1998)

Computational Logic for Natural Language Processing 1995

Programme and gzipped versions of the papers