Audio processing Books

Questions related to language acquisition have been of interest for many centuries, as children seem to acquire a sophisticated capacity for processing language with apparent ease, in the face of ambiguity, noise and uncertainty. However, with recent...

There are not many people who can be said to have influenced and impressed researchers in so many disparate areas and language-geographic fields as Lauri Carlson, as is evidenced in the present Festschrift.His insight and acute linguistic sensitivity and...

The explosion of information technology has led to substantial growth of web-accessible linguistic data in terms of quantity, diversity and complexity. These resources become even more useful when interlinked with each other to generate network effects...

Data mining, an interdisciplinary field combining methods from artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics and database systems, has grown tremendously over the last 20 years and produced core results for applications like business...

It is becoming crucial to accurately estimate and monitor speech quality in various ambient environments to guarantee high quality speech communication. This practical hands-on book shows speech intelligibility measurement methods so that the readers can...

There is increasing interaction among communities with multiple languages, thus we need services that can effectively support multilingual communication. The Language Grid is an initiative to build an infrastructure that allows end users to create...

The digital age has had a profound effect on our cultural heritage and the academic research that studies it. Staggering amounts of objects, many of them of a textual nature, are being digitised to make them more readily accessible to both experts and...

Researchers in many disciplines have been concerned with modeling textual data in order to account for texts as the primary information unit of written communication. The book "Modelling, Learning and Processing of Text-Technological Data Structures"...

In this work, the authors present a fully statistical approach to model non--native speakers' pronunciation. Second-language speakers pronounce words in multiple different ways compared to the native speakers. Those deviations, may it be phoneme...

Semantic agent systems are about the integration of the semantic Web, software agents, and multi-agent systems technologies. Like in the past (e.g. biology and informatics yielding bioinformatics) a whole new perspective is emerging with semantic agent...

Fundamentals.- Background on Text Classification.- Kernel Machines for Text Classification.- Approaches and techniques.- Enhancing SVMs for Text Classification.- Scaling RVMs for Text Classification.- Distributing Text Classification in Grid Environments...

Basic Notation and Terminology.- Open Problems on Partial Words.- Alignments and Approximate String Matching.- An Introductory Course on Communication Complexity.- Formal Languages and Concurrent Behaviours.- Cellular Automata - A Computational Point of...

Information Access using the Guide of User Requirements.- From Linking Text to Linking Crimes: Information Retrieval, But Not As You Know It.- Modeling Retrieval and Navigation in Context.- Two Algorithms for Probabilistic Stemming.- Automated Text...

The Social Web (including services such as MySpace, Flickr, last.fm, and WordPress) has captured the attention of millions of users as well as billions of dollars in investment and acquisition. Social websites, evolving around the connections between...

Semantic fields are lexically coherent - the words they contain co-occur in texts. In this book the authors introduce and define semantic domains, a computational model for lexical semantics inspired by the theory of semantic fields. Semantic domains...

Aus dem Inhalt:.- Einführung.- Kurze Geschichte von RagTime.- Business Publishing mit RagTime.- Installation.- Grundlagen - Ein Baukasten mit vielen Möglichkeiten.- Die Benutzeroberfläche.- Komponenten von RagTime:.- Text.- Layout.- Rechenblatt.-...

This book provides an overview of how comparable corpora can be used to overcome the lack of parallel resources when building machine translation systems for under-resourced languages and domains. It presents a wealth of methods and open tools for...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Big Data, Cloud and Applications, BDCA 2018, held in Kenitra, Morocco, in April 2018.The 45 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully...

The book offers a detailed guide to temporal ordering, exploring open problems in the field and providing solutions and extensive analysis. It addresses the challenge of automatically ordering events and times in text. Aided by TimeML, it also describes...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the conversational interface, which is becoming the main mode of interaction with virtual personal assistants, smart devices, various types of wearable, and social robots. The book consists of four parts...

This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the Translation Process Research Database (TPR-DB), which was compiled by the Centre for Research and Innovation in Translation and Technologies (CRITT). The TPR-DB is a unique resource featuring more...

This contributed volume explores the achievements gained and the remaining puzzling questions by applying dynamical systems theory to the linguistic inquiry. In particular, the book is divided into three parts, each one addressing one of the following...

This book presents recent advances in nonlinearspeech processing beyond nonlinear techniques. It shows that it exploitsheuristic and psychological models of human interaction in order to succeed inthe implementations of socially believable VUIs and...

The objective of this monograph is to improve the performance of the sentiment analysis model by incorporating the semantic, syntactic and common-sense knowledge. This book proposes a novel semantic concept extraction approach that uses dependency...

This volume provides an overview of the field of Hybrid Machine Translation (MT) and presents some of the latest research conducted by linguists and practitioners from different multidisciplinary areas. Nowadays, most important developments in MT are...

The contributions in this volume focus on the Bayesian interpretation of natural languages, which is widely used in areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and computational linguistics. This is the first volume to take up topics in Bayesian...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Graph-Based Approaches in Information Retrieval, IRonGraphs 2024, held in Glasgow, UK, on March 24, 2024.The 6 full papers included in this book were carefully...

In a world where communication is key to human connection, understanding, and learning from one another, the book investigates the rich and intricate world of sign languages, highlighting the fascinating complexities of visual-spatial languages and their...

In this book, the authors systematically and comprehensively discuss textual emotion classification by using deep broad learning. Since broad learning possesses certain advantages such as simple network structure, short training time and strong...

What do we mean by semiotic perception? Why should the concepts of perception and expressivity be reinterpreted within the encompassing framework of a dynamic theory of semiotic fields and forms?  Can we redeploy the concept of form in such a way as...

Modern science is divided into three parts: natural sciences, engineering sciences and humanities. Over the last millennia, natural and engineering sciences evolved a symbiotic relationship, but humanities still stand apart. Today, however, designing and...

This book contains a comprehensive treatment of advanced LaTeX features. The focus is on the development of high quality documents and presentations, by revealing powerful insights into the LaTeX language. The well-established advantages of the...

This book presents methods and approaches used to identify the true author of a doubtful document or text excerpt. It provides a broad introduction to all text categorization problems (like authorship attribution, psychological traits of the author,...

This volume celebrates the twentieth anniversary of CLEF - the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for the first ten years, and the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum since - and traces its evolution over these first two decades. CLEF's main mission...

This book describes effective methods for automatically analyzing a sentence, based on the syntactic and semantic characteristics of the elements that form it. To tackle ambiguities, the authors use selectional preferences (SP), which measure how...

Written by leading international experts, this volume presents contributions establishing the feasibility of human language-like communication with robots. The book explores the use of language games for structuring situated dialogues in which...

Proactive Spoken Dialogue Interaction in Multi-Party Environments describes spoken dialogue systems that act as independent dialogue partners in the conversation with and between users. The resulting novel characteristics such as proactiveness and...

Code-Reviews sind heute fester Bestandteil der Softwareentwicklung, die Wirkung von Architekturreviews ist jedoch weit effektiver. Der Autor stellt Methoden zur Bewertung von IT-Architekturen vor und betrachtet dabei neben dem prozeduralen Ansatz auch...

Do you want to share your message or passion with an eager audience?Are you interested in taking advantage of one of the fastest-growing industries?Do you want to reach thousands of people and earn money by sharing your content?If so, then you've come to...

If you're looking for a simple way to plan your podcast, then keep reading...Podcasting offers the ultimate freedom. However, this freedom can be both a gift and a curse. It can be an outlet for creative thoughts and ideas that help, entertain, and...

On a learning curve when setting up or upgrading your Home Entertainment AVR and/or Hi-Fi system, and/or Sudio Recording system? When trying to work out the why, the what, the how of acoustics, audio devices and setup options? I answer these questions by...

This book goes through an incredible amount of info for beginning in the show business industry as a Live Mixer. Throughout the guide, the reader can expect to learn learn the basics of acoustics and the way that sound behaves scientifically, how...

Create and compose production-quality music with the power of FL Studio 20 along with MuseScore and WwiseKey Features:Develop widely applicable music composition techniques and create full orchestral scoresLeverage the power of FL Studio to create your...

Referring back to the early 2000s, this book traces the development of podcasting from a "do-it-yourself" medium by amateurs into its current environment, where a wide variety of individuals, organizations, and platforms operate in an increasingly...