Dybkjaer, Laila (ed.); Hemsen, Holmer (ed.); Minker, Wolfgang (ed.) Evaluation of text and speech systems. (English) Zbl 1183.68641 Text, Speech and Language Technology 37. Dordrecht: Springer (ISBN 978-1-4020-5815-8/hbk; 978-1-4020-5816-5/pbk). xxiii, 288 p. (2007). Publisher’s description: In its nine chapters, this book provides an overview of the state-of-the-art and best practice in several sub-fields of evaluation of text and speech systems and components. The evaluation aspects covered include 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 this book is unique in the field of evaluation of speech and language technology.This book is of particular relevance to advanced undergraduate students, PhD students, academic and industrial researchers, and practitioners.The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually. MSC: 68T50 Natural language processing 68-06 Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to computer science 68T10 Pattern recognition, speech recognition 00B15 Collections of articles of miscellaneous specific interest Keywords:speaker recognition; speech synthesis; animated talking agents; part-of-speech tagging; parsing machine translation; information retrieval; question answering; spoken dialogue systems; annotation schemes PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{L. Dybkjaer} (ed.) et al., Evaluation of text and speech systems. Dordrecht: Springer (2007; Zbl 1183.68641) Full Text: DOI