Computer Speech & Languagepublishes reports of original research
related to the recognition, understanding, production, coding
and
mining of speech and language.
The speech and language sciences have a long history, but it is only
relatively recently that
large-scale implementation of and
experimentation with complex models of speech and language processing
has become feasible. Such research
is often carried out somewhat
separately by practitioners of artificial intelligence, computer
science, electronic engineering, information
retrieval, linguistics,
phonetics, or psychology.
The journal provides a focus for this work, and encourages an
interdisciplinary
approach to speech and language research and
technology. Thus contributions from all of the related fields are
welcomed in the form of
reports of theoretical or experimental
studies, tutorials, and brief correspondence pertaining to models and
their implementation, or
reports of fundamental research leading to
the improvement of such models.
Research Areas Include
Algorithms and models
for speech recognition and synthesis
Natural language processing for speech understanding and generation
Statistical
computational linguistics
Computational models of discourse and dialogue
Information retrieval, extraction and summarization
Speaker and language recognition
Computational models of speech production and perception
Signal processing
for speech analysis, enhancement and transformation
Evaluation of human and computer system performance
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