Evaluation of Text and Speech Systems

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dybkjær, Laila (Editor), Hemsen, Holmer (Editor), Minker, Wolfgang (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology, 37
• Subjects: Linguistics.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Computational linguistics.; Computational Linguistics.; Language Translation and Linguistics.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

In its nine chapters, this book provides an overview of the state-of-the-art and best practice in several sub-fields of evaluation of text and speech systems and components. The evaluation aspects covered include speech and speaker recognition, speech synthesis, animated talking agents, part-of-spee...

Table of Contents:

• Speech and Speaker Recognition Evaluation
• Evaluation of Speech Synthesis
• Modelling and Evaluating Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication in Talking Animated Interface Agents
• Evaluating Part-of-Speech Tagging and Parsing Patrick Paroubek
• General Principles of User-Oriented Evaluation Margaret King
• An Overview of Evaluation Methods in TREC Ad Hoc Information Retrieval and TREC Question Answering
• Spoken Dialogue Systems Evaluation
• Linguistic Resources, Development, and Evaluation of Text and Speech Systems
• Towards International Standards for Language Resources Nancy Ide and Laurent Romary.