LINGUIST List 22.2556 Sun Jun 19 2011 Books: Computational Linguistics: Bouma, van den Bosch Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Jolanda Voogd , Interactive Multi-modal Question-Answering: Bouma, van den Bosch Message 1: Interactive Multi-modal Question-Answering: Bouma, van den Bosch Date: 17-Jun-2011 From: Jolanda Voogd <Jolanda.Voogdspringer.com> Subject: Interactive Multi-modal Question-Answering: Bouma, van den Bosch E-mail this message to a friend Title: Interactive Multi-modal Question-Answering Series Title: Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing Published: 2011 Publisher: Springer                 http://www.springer.com Book URL: http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems+and+applications/book/978-3-642-17524-4 Author: Gosse Bouma Author: Antal P van den Bosch Electronic: ISBN: 9783642175251 Pages: 294 Price: ---- Hardback: ISBN: 9783642175244 Pages: 294 Price: Europe EURO 96.25 Abstract: 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 synthesis, human interaction management (dialogue, input fusion, andmultimodal output fusion), basic question understanding, and answer finding. While all modules are researched as independent subfields, this book describes the development of state-of-the-art modules and their integration into a single, working application capable of answering medical (encyclopedic) questions such as "How long is a person with measles contagious?" or "How can I prevent RSI?". The contributions in this book, which grew out of the IMIX project funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, document the development of this system, but also address more general issues in natural language processing, such as the development of multidimensional dialogue systems, the acquisition of taxonomic knowledge from text, answer fusion, sequence processing for domain-specific entity recognition, and syntactic parsing for question answering. Together, they offer an overview of the most important findings and lessons learned in the scope of the IMIX project, making the book of interest to both academic and commercial developers of human-machine interaction systems in Dutch or any other language. Highlights include: integrating multi-modal input fusion in dialogue management (Van Schooten and Op den Akker), state-of-the-art approaches to the extraction of term variants (Van der Plas, Tiedemann, and Fahmi; Tjong Kim Sang, Hofmann, and De Rijke), and multi-modal answer fusion (two chapters by Van Hooijdonk, Bosma, Krahmer, Maes, Theune, and Marsi). Watch the IMIX movie at www.nwo.nl/imix-film . 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