Manny Rayner

What Pooh Might Have Said To Dante and other futile speculations

Plato's dialogues, updated for the age of social media and short attention spans. Socrates hangs out with his old gang - Plato, Glaucon, Thrasymachus and the rest - but also meets new characters including Madonna, George W. Bush, Richard Dawkins, Hamlet and an extremely well-meaning robot. Don't count on it teaching you any philosophy, but it might make you laugh if you have a sufficiently warped sense of humor.

An Extravagance

The New Adventures of Socrates

Pierrette Bouillon

Beth Ann Hockey

Among these are NASA's Clarissa, which in 2005 became the first spoken dialogue system to be deployed in space, and MedSLT, an Open Source medical speech translator developed at Geneva University." "This book presents a complete description of both the practical and theoretical aspects of Regulus, with several application examples that can be downloaded from the companion website. Book jacket."--Jacket.

The Regulus Grammar Compiler

Putting Linguistics Into Speech Recognition

David Carter

Vassilis Digalakis

Mats Wirén

This book presents a detailed description of Spoken Language Translator (SLT), one of the first major projects in the area of automatic speech translation. The SLT system can translate between English, French, and Swedish in the domain of air travel planning, using a vocabulary of about 1500 words, and with an accuracy of about 75 per cent. The greater part of the book describes the language processing components, which are largely built on top of the SRI Core Language Engine, using a combination of general grammars and techniques that allow them to be rapidly customized to specific domains. Speech recognition is based on Hidden Markov Mode technology, and uses versions of the SRI DECIPHER system. This account of the Spoken Language Translator should be an essential resource both for those who wish to know what is achievable in spoken-language translation today, and for those who wish to understand how to achieve it.

The Spoken Language Translator

If Research Were Romance and other implausible conjectures

Manny Rayner

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