Human Language Technologies

Author : I. Skadiņa,R. Rozis
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781614997016

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Human Language Technologies – The Baltic Perspective by I. Skadiņa,R. Rozis Pdf

Throughout the last decade, the Baltic states have played an active role in regional and international language technology activities, supporting less-resourced languages in the digital age. This book presents the proceedings of the 7th International Conference: Human Language Technologies – The Baltic Perspective (Baltic HLT 2016), held in Riga, Latvia, in October 2016. Baltic HLT 2016 provided a forum for sharing ideas and recent advances in human language processing with a special focus on less-resourced languages. Papers selected for the conference cover a wide range of topics, including a general overview of language technology progress in the Baltic states, actual research topics in written and spoken language processing, the creation of language resources and their applications, and proposals for a European language platform. The book is divided into five sections: overview; speech technologies and corpora; machine translation; written language resources; and methods and tools for language processing. The book will be a useful resource, not only for Baltic language researchers, but also for those working with other less-resourced languages in Europe and beyond.

Author : Zygmunt Vetulani,Joseph Mariani,Marek Kubis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319937823

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Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics by Zygmunt Vetulani,Joseph Mariani,Marek Kubis Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7h Language and Technology Conference: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, LTC 2015, held in Poznan, Poland, in November 2015. The 31 revised papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions. The papers selected to this volume belong to various fields of: Speech Processing; Multiword Expressions; Parsing; Language Resources and Tools; Ontologies and Wordnets; Machine Translation; Information and Data Extraction; Text Engineering and Processing; Applications in Language Learning; Emotions, Decisions and Opinions; Less-Resourced Languages.

Author : A. Utka,J. Vaičenonienė,J. Kovalevskaitė
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781643681177

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Human Language Technologies – The Baltic Perspective by A. Utka,J. Vaičenonienė,J. Kovalevskaitė Pdf

Human language technology is the study of the methods by which computer programs or electronic devices can analyze, produce, modify or respond to human texts and speech. It consists of natural language processing and computational linguistics on the one hand, and speech technology on the other. This book presents the proceedings of the 9th International Conference, Human Language Technologies – The Baltic Perspective (Baltic HLT 2020), organised in Kaunas, Lithuania on 22 and 23 September 2020. This biennial conference offers researchers a platform to share knowledge on recent advances in human language processing for the Baltic languages, as well as promoting interdisciplinary and international cooperation in human language-technology research within and beyond the Baltic States. In addition to the traditional topics of natural language processing and language technologies, this year’s conference featured a special session on resource and tool development for teaching and learning the less resourced Baltic languages. This year, 42 submissions were received, each of which was evaluated by two reviewers, resulting in a total of 34 papers being accepted for presentation and publication. The book is divided into four sections: speech and text analysis (9 papers); machine translation and natural understanding (6 papers); tools and resources (14 papers); and language learning resources (5 papers). Providing a fascinating overview of current research in the field from a primarily Baltic perspective, the book will be of interest to all those whose work involves human language technology.

Author : Zygmunt Vetulani,Hans Uszkoreit
Publisher : Springer
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642042355

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Human Language Technology. Challenges of the Information Society by Zygmunt Vetulani,Hans Uszkoreit Pdf

Half a centuryago not manypeople had realizedthat a new epoch in the history of homo sapiens had just started. The term “Information Society Age” seems an appropriate name for this epoch. Communication was without a doubt a lever of the conquest of the human race over the rest of the animate world. There is little doubt that the human racebegan when our predecessorsstarted to communicate with each other using language.This highly abstractmeans of communicationwas probably one of the major factors contributing to the evolutionary success of the human race within the animal world. Physically weak and imperfect, humans started to dominate the rest of the world through the creation of communication-based societies where individuals communicated initially to satisfy immediate needs, and then to create, accumulate and process knowledge for future use. The crucial step in the history of humanity was the invention of writing. It is worth noting that writing is a human invention, not a phenomenon resulting from natural evolution. Humans invented writing as a technique for recording speech as well as for storing and facilitating the dissemination of knowledge across the world. Humans continue to be born illiterate, and therefore teaching and conscious supervised learning is necessary to maintain this basic social skill.

Author : Inguna Skadina,Andrejs Vasiljevs
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781607506409

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Human Language Technologies by Inguna Skadina,Andrejs Vasiljevs Pdf

This book contains papers from the Fourth International Conference on Human Language Technologies - the Baltic Perspective (Baltic HLT 2010), held in Riga in October 2010. This conference is the latest in a series which provides a forum for sharing recent advances in human language processing, and promotes cooperation between the computer science and linguistics communities of the Baltic countries and the rest of the world. Bringing together scientists, developers, providers and users, the conference is an opportunity to exchange information, discuss problems, find new synergies, and promote i.

Author : Arvi Tavast,Kadri Muischnek,Mare Koit
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781614991328

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Human Language Technologies by Arvi Tavast,Kadri Muischnek,Mare Koit Pdf

Human language technologies continue to play an important part in the modern information society.This book contains papers presented at the fifth international conference 'Human Language Technologies - The Baltic Perspective (Baltic HLT 2012)', held in Tartu, Estonia, in October 2012.Baltic HLT provides a special venue for new and ongoing work in computational linguistics and related disciplines, both in the Baltic states and in a broader geographical perspective. It brings together scientists, developers, providers and users of HLT, and is a forum for the sharing of new ideas and recent advances in human language processing, promoting cooperation between the research communities of computer science and linguistics from the Baltic countries and the rest of the world.Twenty long papers, as well as the posters or demos accepted for presentation at the conference, are published here. They cover a wide range of topics: morphological disambiguation, dependency syntax and valency, computational semantics, named entities, dialogue modeling, terminology extraction and management, machine translation, corpus and parallel corpus compiling, speech modeling and multimodal communication. Some of the papers also give a general overview of the state of the art of human language technology and language resources in the Baltic states.This book will be of interest to all those whose work involves the use and application of computational linguistics and related disciplines.

Author : K. Muischnek,K. Müürisep
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781614999126

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Human Language Technologies – The Baltic Perspective by K. Muischnek,K. Müürisep Pdf

Computational linguistics, speech processing, natural language processing and language technologies in general have all become increasingly important in an era of all-pervading technological development. This book, Human Language Technologies – The Baltic Perspective, presents the proceedings of the 8th International Baltic Human Language Technologies Conference (Baltic HLT 2018), held in Tartu, Estonia, on 27-29 September 2018. The main aim of Baltic HLT is to provide a forum for sharing new ideas and recent advances in computational linguistics and related disciplines, and to promote cooperation between the research communities of the Baltic States and beyond. The 24 articles in this volume cover a wide range of subjects, including machine translation, automatic morphology, text classification, various language resources, and NLP pipelines, as well as speech technology; the latter being the most popular topic with 8 papers. Delivering an overview of the state-of-the-art language technologies from a Baltic perspective, the book will be of interest to all those whose work involves language processing in whatever form.

Author : Moses Effiong Ekpenyong
Publisher : Springer
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319699608

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Human Language Technologies for Under-Resourced African Languages by Moses Effiong Ekpenyong Pdf

This book provides an overview of a recent and flexible approach to speech synthesis design to develop the first statistical parametric speech synthesizer for Ibibio, a West African tonal language. The design precludes the inflexibility encountered when modeling tonal features of the language and can be used for other tonal African languages. Mobile use and technological innovations in developing African nations have exploded. With mobile technology, many of the barriers caused by infrastructure issues have vanished. In order to address issues that are unique to African tonal languages, the book uses Ibibio as a model. The text reviews the language's speech characteristics, required for building the front end components of the design and propose a finite state transducer (FST), useful for modelling the language’s tonetactics. The statistical parametric approach discussed in the text, implements the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) technique, with the goal of creating a generic structure that learns the model from the text itself, and uses the data-driven approach to input specification.

Author : Giovanni Battista Varile,Antonio Zampolli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0521592771

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Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology by Giovanni Battista Varile,Antonio Zampolli Pdf

Languages, in all their forms, are the more efficient and natural means for people to communicate. Enormous quantities of information are produced, distributed and consumed using languages. Human language technology's main purpose is to allow the use of automatic systems and tools to assist humans in producing and accessing information, to improve communication between humans, and to assist humans in communicating with machines. This book, sponsored by the Directorate General XIII of the European Union and the Information Science and Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation, USA, offers the first comprehensive overview of the human language technology field.

Author : Zygmunt Vetulani,Patrick Paroubek,Marek Kubis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030665272

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Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics by Zygmunt Vetulani,Patrick Paroubek,Marek Kubis Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Language and Technology Conference: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, LTC 2017, held in Poznan, Poland, in November 2017. The 26 revised papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 97 submissions. The papers selected to this volume belong to various fields of: Language Resources, Tools and Evaluation, Less-Resourced-Languages, Speech Processing, Morphology, Computational Semantics, Machine Translation, and Information Retrieval and Information Extraction.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8393264022

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LTC'11 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Zygmunt Vetulani
Publisher : Springer
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642200953

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Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics by Zygmunt Vetulani Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Language and Technology Conference: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, LTC 2009, held in Poznan, Poland, in November 2009. The 52 revised and in many cases substantially extended papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections on speech processing, computational morphology/lexicography, parsing, computational semantics, dialogue modeling and processing, digital language resources, WordNet, document processing, information processing, and machine translation.

Author : Noah A. Smith
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031021435

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Linguistic Structure Prediction by Noah A. Smith Pdf

A major part of natural language processing now depends on the use of text data to build linguistic analyzers. We consider statistical, computational approaches to modeling linguistic structure. We seek to unify across many approaches and many kinds of linguistic structures. Assuming a basic understanding of natural language processing and/or machine learning, we seek to bridge the gap between the two fields. Approaches to decoding (i.e., carrying out linguistic structure prediction) and supervised and unsupervised learning of models that predict discrete structures as outputs are the focus. We also survey natural language processing problems to which these methods are being applied, and we address related topics in probabilistic inference, optimization, and experimental methodology. Table of Contents: Representations and Linguistic Data / Decoding: Making Predictions / Learning Structure from Annotated Data / Learning Structure from Incomplete Data / Beyond Decoding: Inference

Author : Zygmunt Vetulani,Hans Uszkoreit,Marek Kubis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319438085

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Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics by Zygmunt Vetulani,Hans Uszkoreit,Marek Kubis Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Language and Technology Conference: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, LTC 2013, held in Poznań, Poland, in December 2013. The 31 revised and in many cases substantially extended papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions.The papers selected to this volume belong to various fields of Human Language Technologies and illustrate a large thematic coverage of the LTC conferences. To make the presentation of the papers possibly transparent we have “structured” them into 9 chapters. These are: Speech Processing, Morphology, Parsing Related Issues, Computational Semantics, Digital Language Resources, Ontologies and Wordnets, Written Text and Document Processing, Information and Data Extraction, and Less-Resourced Languages.

Author : Michael Piotrowski
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031021466

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Natural Language Processing for Historical Texts by Michael Piotrowski Pdf

More and more historical texts are becoming available in digital form. Digitization of paper documents is motivated by the aim of preserving cultural heritage and making it more accessible, both to laypeople and scholars. As digital images cannot be searched for text, digitization projects increasingly strive to create digital text, which can be searched and otherwise automatically processed, in addition to facsimiles. Indeed, the emerging field of digital humanities heavily relies on the availability of digital text for its studies. Together with the increasing availability of historical texts in digital form, there is a growing interest in applying natural language processing (NLP) methods and tools to historical texts. However, the specific linguistic properties of historical texts -- the lack of standardized orthography, in particular -- pose special challenges for NLP. This book aims to give an introduction to NLP for historical texts and an overview of the state of the art in this field. The book starts with an overview of methods for the acquisition of historical texts (scanning and OCR), discusses text encoding and annotation schemes, and presents examples of corpora of historical texts in a variety of languages. The book then discusses specific methods, such as creating part-of-speech taggers for historical languages or handling spelling variation. A final chapter analyzes the relationship between NLP and the digital humanities. Certain recently emerging textual genres, such as SMS, social media, and chat messages, or newsgroup and forum postings share a number of properties with historical texts, for example, nonstandard orthography and grammar, and profuse use of abbreviations. The methods and techniques required for the effective processing of historical texts are thus also of interest for research in other domains. Table of Contents: Introduction / NLP and Digital Humanities / Spelling in Historical Texts / Acquiring Historical Texts / Text Encoding and Annotation Schemes / Handling Spelling Variation / NLP Tools for Historical Languages / Historical Corpora / Conclusion / Bibliography