Human Language Technology: Opportunities and Challenges
Mari Ostendorf, Elizabeth E. Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke · 2006
In recent years, there has been dramatic progress in both speech and language processing, in many cases leveraging some of the same underlying methods. This progress and the growing technical ties motivate efforts to combine speech and language technologies in spoken document processing applications. This paper outlines some of the issues involved, as well as the opportunities, presenting an overview of the special double session on this topic.