Where Humans Meet Machines : Innovative Solutions for Knotty Natural-Language Problems - Neustein, Amy.; Markowitz, Judith A.; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
Preface -- Making the Case for an Open, Unified System Architecture in Response to Rapid Developments in the Natural Language Industry: Translingual Automatic Language Exploration System (TALES) -- The Burgeoning of Medical Social-Media Postings and the Need for Improved Natural Language Mapping Tools -- Machine Translation: the Enterprise Point of View -- Speech-Enabled Unified Communications: Overcoming the Multilingual Challenges of the European Market -- Exploiting Lexical Sensitivity in Performing Word-Sense Disambiguation -- Summarizing Short Texts through a Discourse-Centered Approach in a Multilingual Context -- Handling Two Difficult Challenges for Text-to-Speech Synthesis Systems:  Out-of-Vocabulary Words and Prosody -- A Case Study in Romanian -- MAP: An Abstraction-Based Metaphor Analysis Program for Overcoming Cross-Modal Challenges -- Translation of Idiomatic Expressions across Different Languages: A Study of the Effectiveness of TransSearch -- Argumentation-Based Dialog Systems for Medical Training -- Design of Dialog-Based Intelligent Tutoring Systems to Simulate Human-to-Human Tutoring.- TCAD: Vocabulary Acquisition Tool for Motivating Bilingual Pupils with Hearing Impairments in Learning English -- A Hybrid Approach to Automated Rating of Foreign Language Proficiency Using Oral Test Responses.- Multilingual Systems, Translation Technology and Their Impact on the Translator's Profession -- Editors' biographies.
Keywords: Signal processing; Image processing; Speech processing systems; Computational linguistics; Machinery; Power electronics; Signal, Image and Speech Processing; Computational Linguistics; Machinery and Machine Elements; Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks