Natural Language Processing Report
February 26, 2008: A report, "Natural Language Processing Tools" is now available from Conversational Technologies. This report describes the current state of the art in current natural language processing tools and systems. It focuses on commercial applications, but also includes information on research systems. Please contact us for further information.
Recent Publications and Presentations
“Standards for Multimodal Interaction”. In Handbook of Research on Multimodal Human Computer Interaction and Pervasive Services: Evolutionary Techniques for Improving Accessibility. Patrizia Grifoni, ed. IGI Global, to appear in May, 2009. More information.
(with Marcia C. Linebarger, and Rita S. Berndt) “Improving automatic speech recognition of aphasic speech through the use of a processing prosthesis”. Technology and Disability, Vol 20, no. 4, 2008, pp. 283-295.
"Multimodal Demos". SpeechTEK 2008, New York.
"New W3C Standards for Speech and Multimodal Applications" Voice Search Conference, March 10-12, 2008, San Diego.
Standards for Multimodal Applications VoiceXML Review, volume 7, issue 1, April-May, 2007.
10 Innovative Speech Applications Presented at the Spring 2007 SpeechTEK/AVIOS Conference, San Francisco.
Point/Counter Point on Personas Speech Technology Magazine, January-February, 2006, Vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 18-21.
Deborah Dahl, Editor. Practical Spoken Dialog Systems. Springer-Verlag, 2005.
This book is a collection of 10 papers describing the life cycle of spoken dialog systems from requirements definition through deployment, with an emphasis on the practical considerations that are needed to make these applications successful. It also offers a glimpse into the future by including two papers on systems that are still under development in research laboratories. Some of the specific topics treated are error handling, speaker authentication, tool selection, and the psychological bases of human-computer communication.
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