Interactive Multi-modal Question-Answering

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bosch, Antal van den (Editor), Bouma, Gosse (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing
• Subjects: Computer science.; Information storage and retrieval.; Multimedia information systems.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Computer Science.; Multimedia Information Systems.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Information Storage and Retrieval.

This book is the result of a group of researchers from different disciplines asking themselves one question: what does it take to develop a computer interface that listens, talks, and can answer questions in a domain? First, obviously, it takes specialized modules for speech recognition and synthesi...