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Tuesday, February 08, 2011 by Chris Wellekens |
5-1-1 | Spoken Language Processing Spoken Language Processing, edited by Joseph Mariani (IMMI and Publisher ISTE-Wiley Speech processing addresses various scientific and technological areas. It includes speech analysis and variable rate coding, in order to store or transmit speech. It also covers speech synthesis, especially from text, speech recognition, including speaker and language identification, and spoken language understanding. This book covers the following topics: how to realize speech production and perception systems, how to synthesize and understand speech using state-of-the-art methods in signal processing, pattern recognition, stochastic modeling, computational linguistics and human factor studies.
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5-1-2 | L'imagerie medicale pour l'etude de la parole Alain Marchal, Christian Cave Eds Hermes Lavoisier 99 euros • 304 pages • 16 x 24 • 2009 • ISBN : 978-2-7462-2235-9 Du miroir laryngé à la vidéofibroscopie actuelle, de la prise d'empreintes statiques à la palatographie dynamique, des débuts de la radiographie jusqu'à l'imagerie par résonance magnétique ou la magnétoencéphalographie, cet ouvrage passe en revue les différentes techniques d'imagerie utilisées pour étudier la parole tant du point de vue de la production que de celui de la perception. Les avantages et inconvénients ainsi que les limites de chaque technique sont passés en revue, tout en présentant les principaux résultats acquis avec chacune d'entre elles ainsi que leurs perspectives d'évolution. Écrit par des spécialistes soucieux d'être accessibles à un large public, cet ouvrage s'adresse à tous ceux qui étudient ou abordent la parole dans leurs activités professionnelles comme les phoniatres, ORL, orthophonistes et bien sûr les phonéticiens et les linguistes.
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5-1-3 | Korpusbasierte Sprachverarbeitung Author: Christoph Draxler
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5-1-4 | Linear Predictive Coding and the Internet Protocol, by Robert M. Gray Linear Predictive Coding and the Internet Protocol, by Robert M. Gray, a special edition hardback book from Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing (FnT SP). The book brings together two forthcoming issues of FnT SP, the first being a survey of LPC, the second a unique history of realtime digital speech on packet networks.
Volume 3, Issue 3 A Survey of Linear Predictive Coding: Part 1 of LPC and the IP By Robert M. Gray (Stanford University) http://www.nowpublishers.com/product.aspx?product=SIG&doi=2000000029
Volume 3, Issue 4
A History of Realtime Digital Speech on Packet Networks: Part 2 of LPC and the IP By Robert M. Gray (Stanford University) http://www.nowpublishers.com/product.aspx?product=SIG&doi=2000000036
The links above will take you to the article abstracts.
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5-2-1 | Bell System Technical Journal (1922-1983) available .I received this very good news from Joseph P. Campbell (MIT Lincoln Laboratory): The entire Bell System Technical Journal from 1922--1983 is now available on line! It is offered in PDF format sorted by year, volume, and issue; and it is searchable: http://bstj.bell-labs.com/ BSTJ holds a wealth of consolidated information of outstanding contributions from Bell Labs over the years. For example, check out Fletcher's 1922 article 'The Nature of Speech and Its Interpretation', BSTJ, vol 1, no 1. Also see Shannon's landmark paper and much, much more! As Joe pointed out, the current generation of researchers didn't grow up with BSTJs under their bed like we both did, but for the older generation that remembers these great articles, this is indeed very good news. --Isabel Trancoso
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5-2-2 | ELRA Language Resources Catalogue Update (June 2010) ELRA is happy to announce that 2 new Speech Desktop/Microphone resources, 1 new Terminological Resource and 1 Written Corpus are now available in its catalogue: ELRA-S0305 EPAC Corpus: orthographic transcriptions
This corpus consists of approx. 100 hours of manual orthographic transcriptions, which were produced from 1,677 hours of non transcribed recordings from the ESTER Evaluation Campaign (Technolangue programme). This corpus also consists of automatic transcriptions of the full 1,677 hours.
For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1119
ELRA-S0307 BABEL Polish database
The BABEL Polish Database is a speech database that was produced by a research consortium funded by the European Union under the COPERNICUS programme (COPERNICUS Project 1304). It consists of the basic 'common' set which contains the Many Talker Set (30 males, 30 females), the Few Talker Set (5 males, 5 females), the Very Few Talker Set (1 male, 1 female).
For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1120
ELRA-T0374 Terminology database of natural sciences
This dictionary covers the three kingdoms: Animal, Vegetal, Mineral. It contains 50,000 species with numerous synonyms in French, English and Latin and many breeds and varieties. Minerals are given with their chemical formula. About 7,900 definitions in French are included. It also includes synonyms and linguistic variants.
For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1121
ELRA-W0053 Catalan-Spanish Parallel Corpus
This corpus contains more than 100 million words and it contains 10 years of bilingual articles from “El Periódico de Catalunya”. The data are aligned at sentence level and stored in text files, in a one sentence per line basis. The data are provided in plain text, with no encoding whatsoever.
For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1122
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Moreover, please note that the content of the following 3 Terminological Resources has been updated and their prices have been revised:
ELRA-T0102 Terminology database of expressions
This resource comprises over about 26,000-30,000 expressions, such as sayings, proverbs, idioms, slogans, citations, exclamations, onomatopoeias and figurative expressions of French and English. Several grammatical topics that are included in some sentences are also handled. This resource contains synonyms. The DISCIPLINE field refers to the expression category: proverbs, idioms, postposition verbs.
For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=114
ELRA-T0103 Terminology database of finance
This dictionary covers the three kingdoms: Animal, Vegetal, Mineral. It contains 50,000 species with numerous synonyms in French, English and Latin and many breeds and varieties. Minerals are given with their chemical formula. About 7,900 definitions in French are included. It also includes synonyms and linguistic variants.
For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=115
ELRA-T0367 Terminology database of telecommunication
This resource comprises over 89,200 entries in the field of telecommunication. It also contains many synonyms and abbreviations in both languages, as well as meaning, case or applications for polysemic terms.
For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=659
For more information on the catalogue, please contact Valérie Mapelli mailto:mapelli@elda.org
Visit our On-line Catalogue: http://catalog.elra.info
Visit the Universal Catalogue: http://universal.elra.info
Archives of ELRA Language Resources Catalogue Updates: http://www.elra.info/LRs-Announcements.html
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In the framework of our ongoing campaign for updating and reducing the prices of the language resources distributed in the ELRA catalogue, ELRA is happy to announce that the prices for the following resources have been substantially reduced:
ELRA-S0074 British English SpeechDat(II) MDB-1000
This speech database contains the recordings of 1,000 British speakers recorded over the British mobile telephone network. Each speaker uttered around 40 read and spontaneous items.
For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=723
ELRA-S0075 Welsh SpeechDat(II) FDB-2000
This speech database contains the recordings of 2,000 Welsh speakers recorded over the British fixed telephone network. Each speaker uttered around 40 read and spontaneous items.
For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=557
ELRA-S0101 Spanish SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000
This speech database contains the recordings of 1,000 Castillan Spanish speakers recorded over the Spanish fixed telephone network. Each speaker uttered around 40 read and spontaneous items.
This database is a subset of the Spanish SpeechDat(II) FDB-4000 (ref. ELRA-S0102).
For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=726
ELRA-S0102 Spanish SpeechDat(II) FDB-4000
This speech database contains the recordings of 4,000 Castillan Spanish speakers recorded over the Spanish fixed telephone network. Each speaker uttered around 40 read and spontaneous items.
This database includes the Spanish SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 (ref. ELRA-S0101).
For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=727
ELRA-S0140 Spanish SpeechDat-Car database
The Spanish SpeechDat-Car database contains the recordings in a car of 306 speakers, who uttered around 120 read and spontaneous items. Recordings have been made through 5 different channels, of which 4 were in-car microphones (1 close-talk microphone, 3 far-talk microphones) and 1 channel over the GSM network.
For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=690
ELRA-S0141 SALA Spanish Venezuelan Database
This speech database contains the recordings of 1,000 Venezuelan speakers recorded over the Venezuelan fixed telephone network. Each speaker uttered around 50 read and spontaneous items.
For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=736
ELRA-S0297 Hungarian Speecon database
The Hungarian Speecon database comprises the recordings of 555 adult Hungarian speakers and 50 child Hungarian speakers who uttered respectively over 290 items and 210 items (read and spontaneous).
For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1094
ELRA-S0298 Czech Speecon database
The Czech Speecon database comprises the recordings of 550 adult Czech speakers and 50 child Czech speakers who uttered respectively over 290 items and 210 items (read and spontaneous).
For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1095
For more information on the catalogue, please contact Valérie Mapelli mailto:mapelli@elda.org
Visit our On-line Catalogue: http://catalog.elra.info
Visit the Universal Catalogue: http://universal.elra.info
Archives of ELRA Language Resources Catalogue Updates: http://www.elra.info/LRs-Announcements.html
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5-2-3 | LDC Newsletter (January 2011) In this newsletter: - LDC Data Scholarship Program Deadline - January 31, 2011 - - Membership Discounts for MY 2011 Still Available - New publications: - ACE 2005 English SpatialML Annotations Version 2 - - SemEval-2010 Task 1 OntoNotes English: Coreference Resolution in Multiple Languages - LDC Data Scholarship Program Deadline - January 31, 2011 The deadline for the Spring 2011 LDC Data Scholarship Program is fast approaching! Applications are now being accepted through January 31, 2011. The LDC Data Scholarship program provides university students with access to LDC data at no-cost. This program is open to students pursuing both undergraduate and graduate studies in an accredited college or university. LDC Data Scholarships are not restricted to any particular field of study; however, students must demonstrate a well-developed research agenda and a bona fide inability to pay. Students can email their applications to the LDC Data Scholarship program. Decisions will be sent by email from the same address.
If you are considering joining for Membership Year 2011 (MY2011), there is still time to save on membership fees. Any organization which joins or renews membership for 2011 through Tuesday, March 1, 2011, is entitled to a 5% discount on membership fees. Organizations which held membership for MY2010 can receive a 10% discount on fees provided they renew prior to March 1, 2011. For further information on pricing, please consult our Announcements page or contact LDC. New Publications
(1) ACE 2005 English SpatialML Annotations Version 2 was developed by researchers at The MITRE Corporation and applies SpatialML tags to the English newswire and broadcast training data annotated for entities, relations and events in ACE 2005 Multilingual Training Corpus LDC2006T06. This second version eliminates a number of annotation inconsistencies and errors identified in ACE 2005 English SpatialML Annotations LDC2008T03. In addition, the SpatialML annotation schema has been updated from version 2.0 to version 3.0.1; the revised annotation guidelines are included in this release. The ACE (Automatic Content Extraction) program focused on developing automatic content extraction technology to support automatic processing of human language in text form., specifically, entities, values, temporal expressions, relations and events. SpatialML is a mark-up language for representing spatial expressions in natural language documents. It is intended to emulate earlier progress on time expression such as TIMEX2, TimeML, and the 2005 ACE guidelines. SpatialML includes syntax for marking up PLACEs mentioned in text and for linking them to data from gazetteers and other databases. LINKs are used to express relations between places, and RLINKs to capture trajectories for relative locations. To the extent possible, SpatialML leverages ISO and other standards with the goal of making the scheme compatible with existing and future corpora. SpatialML goes beyond these schemes, however, in terms of providing a richer markup for natural language that includes semantic features and relationships that allow mapping to existing resources such as gazetteers. Such markup can be useful for disambiguation, integration with mapping services and spatial reasoning. This corpus contains 210065 total words and 17821 unique words. Counts of unique words can be found in doc/ldc_wordcount.csv which includes all words that are not part of XML markup (e.g., without tag names, attribute names or values). Unique words are counted by comparing case insensitive transformations with preceding and trailing punctuation stripped off. 'Words' consisting solely of punctuation are discarded. The principal change in the annotation schema is that 'PATH' has been generalized to 'RLINK' for relative link. At the top level, there is now a version attribute on the root SpatialML tag to capture which version of SpatialML was used. A number of smaller changes have been made to the annotation specification; these are listed in Section 2 of the updated guidelines. ACE 2005 English SpatialML Annotations Version 2 is distributed via web download. * (2) SemEval-2010 Task 1 OntoNotes English: Coreference Resolution in Multiple Languages is a subset of OntoNotes Release 2.0 LDC2008T04 used in SemEval-2010 Task 1, Coreference Resolution in Multiple Languages. OntoNotes Release 2.0 consists of roughly 500,000 words of English broadcast and newswire data annotated with structural information (syntax and predicate argument structure) and shallow semantics (word sense linked to an ontology and coreference). This SemEval-2010 Task 1 release contains approximately 120,000 words extracted from the OntoNotes corpus and formatted for the SemEval task. SemEval (Semantic Evaluation) is an ongoing series of evaluations of computational semantic analysis systems. The goal of SemEval-2010 Task 1 was to evaluate and compare automatic coreference resolution systems for six languages (Catalan, Dutch, English, German, Italian and Spanish) in four evaluation settings using four metrics. Further information about Task 1 can be found on the task description website. The data is divided into three sets: the development set which contains 39 documents, 741 sentences and 17,044 tokens; the training set which contains 229 documents, 3,648 sentences and 79,060 tokens; and the test set which contains 85 documents, 1,141 sentences and 24,206 tokens. The complete material for training systems is the sum of the development and training sets.
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5-2-4 | ELDA Distribution Campaign 2010 ELDA Distribution Campaign 2010
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