Text, speech, and language technology

Due to the recent availability of large bodies of text and speech in electronic form, data-based research of all kinds has increased dramatically in areas such as computational linguistics and language engineering (especially corpus-based linguistics), speech, humanities computing, psycho-linguistics, and information retrieval. This series is intended to explore the methodologies and technologies that are emerging as a result of this work. In addition, while each of these disciplines has developed methodologies appropriate to its particular problem area, there is emerging a clearly defined set of technologies and methodologies common to all areas of research involving large quantities of electronic data. The series is particularly concerned with methodologies and technologies with either actual or potential applicability to other areas.

The series contains several different types of books, including: methodologies, which survey major methodological approaches in a given domain. Many of the methodologies emerging for text-based work have never been considered collectively or comprehensively, and there is a serious need for books which provide an overview of the important approaches to certain problem areas. Advanced research topics, which treat in depth specific areas of interest or projects at the state of the art. This type of book describes leading edge research on specific topics, whose methodologies may have only just begun to develop. Tutorials, which provide a general introduction to a particular topic. Because data-based research has developed so rapidly in recent years, there is a large number of researchers who are unfamiliar with basic concepts and approaches. In addition, applicable methodologies which may be well-developed within one discipline are often completely unknown to researchers in another discipline.

Exercise 14. Give as more synonyms as possible to the following words:

due to, recent, concept, recognition, topic

Exercise 15. Find in the text synonyms to following words:

1. turn up

2. suitability

3. overview

4. sphere (field)

5. border

WORD STUDY:

Exercise 16. Use each of the following in sentences of your own:

see about, see him off, to see the last of, to see red, to ss one’s way, seen better days, to see through a person, to see eye to eye.

Exercise 17. Practice derivatives (translate and make sentences):

to recruit/recruitment/recruit

redundant/redundancy

to reserve/reservation, reserved

to represent/representative, representation

to ship/shipment, shipping

Exercise 18. Be ready to write a dictation with the terms to be memorized from the Unit 4.

UNIT 5