Robustness in Language and Speech Technology

This volume addresses robustness issues at the speech recognition and natural language parsing levels, with a focus on feature extraction and noise robust recognition, adaptive systems, language modelling, parsing, and natural language understanding. It attempts to give a clear overview of the main technologies used in language and speech processing, along with an extensive bibliography to enable topics of interest to be pursued further. It also brings together speech and language technologies often considered separately. "Robustness in Language and Speech Technology" should prove a valuable reference, and although not intended as a formal university textbook, contains some material that can be used for a course at the graduate or undergraduate level.