Pattern Recognition in Speech and Language Processing

The advent of powerful computing devices and ubiquitous multimedia information distribution has triggered a wave of new approaches in pattern recognition. This book provides a systematic and timely presentation of the fundamentals and recent developments in the field of speech and language processing. It begins with the basics and recent theoretical advances, emphasizing classifier design criteria and optimization procedures. Discussions then move to topics in speech recognition and, finally, to language processing. Numerous examples of practical applications and real system descriptions make this a truly comprehensive treatment for an important and rapidly growing field.