*Unique and original collection of chapters on text and speech systems evaluation *Broad coverage of the field of text and speech systems and their evaluation *Includes chapters on language resources and standard *Benefits those working in the broad area of speech and language technology evaluation

This book provides an overview of state-of-the-art and best practice in sub-fields of evaluation of text and speech systems and components. Coverage includes speech and speaker recognition, speech synthesis, animated talking agents, part-of-speech tagging, parsing, and natural language software like machine translation, information retrieval, question answering, spoken dialogue systems, data resources, and annotation schemes. With its broad coverage and original contributions it is unique in the field.