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zedat.fu-berlin.de>Dafydd Gibbon, Roger Moore and Richard Winski (Editors) HANDBOOK OF STANDARDS AND RESOURCES FOR SPOKEN LANGUAGE SYSTEMS 1997. 23 x 15,5 cm. XXX, 886 pages Mouton de Gruyter * Berlin * New York In 1993 the EAGLES (Expert Advisory Groups on Language Engineering Standards) initiative was launched within the framework of the Linguistic Research and Engineering (LRE) Programme of Directorate General XIII of the Comission of the European Union in order to accelerate the provision of standards for developing, exploiting, and evaluating large-scale language resources, both written and spoken. The EAGLES Spoken Language Working Group has concentrated its work on the design and production of a HANDBOOK OF STANDARDS AND RESOURCES FOR SPOKEN LANGUAGE SYSTEMS, with information and recommendations on established practice in the area of spoken language system development in multilingual environments. The scope of the HANDBOOK ranges from system design and the provision of corpora for system development, through corpus classification in terms of lexical information, language models and physical properties, to assessment methodology for speaker verification systems, automatic speech recognition and speech synthesis. Standard reference material from European multilingual speech projects is included. More than two dozen leading scholars in their fields from laboratories in the countries of the European Union have collaborated in producing the HANDBOOK in several authoring and consultation cycles, which has ensured a high level of consensus with respect to the HANDBOOK contents. On one level, the HANDBOOK is addressed to decision makers in industry and funding agencies, with the aim of providing easy access to current practice and requirements in the main spoken language technologies. The HANDBOOK will also be an essential source of information for the laboratory practitioner who requires specific definitions on procedures and formats. Finally, the strong tutorial element in each chapter is addressed towards advanced students in the speech sciences. The HANDBOOK OF STANDARDS AND RESOURCES FOR SPOKEN LANGUAGE SYSTEMS is available in three convenient formats: o A cloth library edition with CD-ROM. DM 298,-/approx. US$ 180.00 ISBN 3-11-015366-1 o Four subject-oriented volumes, each available separately in paperback: Each volume approx. DM 45,-/approx. US$ 26.95 SPOKEN LANGUAGE SYSTEM AND CORPUS DESIGN ISBN 3-11-015365-3 SPOKEN LANGUAGE CHARACTERIZATION ISBN 3-11-015734-9 SPOKEN LANGUAGE SYSTEM ASSESSMENT ISBN 3-11-015735-7 SPOKEN LANGUAGE REFERENCE MATERIALS ISBN 3-11-015736-5 o A hypertext version at http://www.deGruyter.de/EAGLES/index.html This link will be available on August 1, 1997. _______________________________________________________________________ Mouton de Gruyter Walter de Gruyter, Inc. Postfach 30 34 21 200 Saw Mill River Road D-10728 Berlin Hawthorne, NY 10532 Germany USA Fax: +49 (0)30 26005-351 Fax: +1 914 747-1326 email: moutonMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
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