Editors Amy Neustein and Judith A. Markowitz have recruited a talented group of contributors to
introduce the next generation of natural language technologies to resolve some of the most
vexing natural-language problems that compromise the performance of speech systems today. This
fourteen-chapter anthology consists of contributions from industry scientists and from
academicians working at major universities in North America and Europe. They include
researchers who have played a central role in DARPA-funded programs and developers who craft
real-world solutions for corporations. This anthology is aimed at speech engineers system
developers computer scientists AI researchers and others interested in utilizing
natural-language technology in both spoken and text-based applications.
