From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Sat Apr 20 01:50:19 1996
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 19:10:12 +0000
From: ide@univ-aix.fr (Nancy Ide)
Subject: new book series

                          New Book Series... from
                         Kluwer Academic Publishers


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                   TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY


                              Series Editors:
                        Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
                                   and
           Jean V=E9ronis, CNRS and Universit=E9 de Provence, France


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Editorial board: Harald Baayen, Max Planck Institute, The Netherlands;
David Barnard, Queens University, Canada; Ken Church, Bell Laboratories,
USA; Stig Johansson, University of Oslo, Norway; Judith Klavans, Columbia
University, USA; Joaquim Llisterri, Universitat Autonoma di Barcelona,
Spain; Joseph Mariani, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
France; Dan Tufis, Academy of Sciences, Romania.

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Due to the recent availability of large bodies of text and speech in elec=
tronic
form, data-based research of all kinds has increased dramatically in area=
s
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 emergi=
ng
a clearly defined set of technologies and methodologies common to all are=
as
of research involving large quantities of electronic data. The series wil=
l
be particularly concerned with methodologies and technologies with either
actual or potantial applicability to other areas. The topics covered by t=
he
series include but are not limited to:

   o encoding and representation of text and speech
   o lexical statistics and quantitative word studies
   o computational lexicography
   o morphological analysis and part-of-speech tagging
   o grammars and parsing technologies
   o automated content and thematic analysis
   o text databases and retrieval
   o document analysis, automatic indexing and abstracting
   o stylometry and computerized authorship discrimination
   o text generation
   o message understanding
   o text-to-speech and dictation systems
   o speech synthesis and speech recognition
   o phonological and prosodic analysis

The series will contain several different types of books, including:

   o methodologies, which survey major methodological approaches in a giv=
en
     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.

   o advanced research topics, which treat in depth specific areas
     of interest or projects at the state of the art. This type of book w=
ill
     describe leading edge research on specific topics, whose methodologi=
es
     may have only just begun to develop.

   o tutorials, which provide a general introduction to a particular topi=
c.
     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
     unknwon to researchers in another discipline.

Supplementary materials such as software, demonstrations, program
libraries, etc. in appropriate forms (diskettes, web sites, etc.) will be
included where appropriate.

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Forthcoming:

Text to Speech Synthesis. T. Dutoit

Studies in Very Large Corpora. K. Church, P. Isabelle and D. Yarowsky (Ed=
s.)

Recent Advances in Parsing Technologies. H. Bunt and M. Tomita (Eds.)

Prosody: Theory and Experiment. M. Horne (Ed.)

Corpus-based Methods in Language and Speech. G. Bloothoft, K. Church and =
S.
Young (Eds.)

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Also of interest:

The Text Encoding Initiative: Background and Context. N. Ide and J. V=E9r=
onis
(Eds.)

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For more information on this series or to discuss publishing in the serie=
s
contact:

Polly Margules
Kluwer Academic Publishers
101 Philip Drive, Norwell, MA 02061
PH: 617-871-6600 ext. 313
FX: 617-871-6528
e-mail: pmargules@wkap.com