Robustness in Language and Speech Technology Jean-Claude Junqua and Gertjan van Noord (editors) (Panasonic Speech Technology Laboratory and University of Groningen) Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers (Text, speech and language technology series, edited by Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis, volume 17), 2001, x+269 pp; hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6790-1, $100.00, £57.00, €100.00
John Alexander Carroll · Computational Linguistics · 2001
This book stems from the Sixth Summer School on Language and Speech Communication, held in Barcelona, Spain, in 1998, sponsored by ELSNET (The European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies) and the EU TMR (Training and Mobility of Researchers) program.The summer school, whose special theme was "Robustness: Real life applications in language and speech," is the third such summer school to give rise to a book in this Kluwer series, following on from edited collections by Young and Bloothooft (1997) and van Eynde and Gibbon (2000).One slightly odd feature of the book, however, is that only 3 of the 10 courses given at the summer school are represented by chapters in the book; the remaining 6 technical chapters are invited contributions from other researchers.The chapter titles and authors, with an indication of whether the chapter originated from one of the courses, are as follows: