Speech and language technologies continue to grow in importance
as they are used to create natural and efficient interfaces between
people and machines, and to automatically transcribe, extract,
analyze, and route information from high-volume streams of spoken
and written information.
The workshops on Mathematical Foundations of Speech Processing
and Natural Language Modeling were held in the Fall of 2000 at the
University of Minnesota's NSF-sponsored Institute for Mathematics
and Its Applications, as part of a "Mathematics in Multimedia"
year-long program. Each workshop brought together researchers in
the respective technologies on the one hand, and mathematicians and
statisticians on the other hand, for an intensive week of
cross-fertilization.
There is a long history of benefit from introducing mathematical
techniques and ideas to speech and language technologies. Examples
include the source-channel paradigm, hidden Markov models, decision
trees, exponential models and formal languages theory. It is likely
that new mathematical techniques, or novel applications of existing
techniques, will once again prove pivotal for moving the field
forward.
This volume consists of original contributions presented by
participants during the two workshops. Topics include language
modeling, prosody, acoustic-phonetic modeling, and statistical
methodology.
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