Com578J2: Natural Language Processing

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Useful links

http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/AITopics/NaturalLanguage Natural language processing

http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/AITopics/Speech Speech interfaces

http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/AITopics/Interfaces Interfaces

Natural Language Processing (General)

http://www.infc.ulst.ac.uk/~norman/NLPgroup/ The Natural Language Processing Research group at the University of Ulster

http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/CL/InteractiveTools.html Interactive on-line demos

http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~hansu/clwebinfo.html (WWW Information on Computational Linguistics and Language Technology)

http://www.elsnet.org/ (ELSNET - European Network in Language and Speech)

http://www.sil.org/linguistics/computing.html#phonology (Linguistics Resources: Computing)

Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology - a very useful on-line book

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/cal-top.htm Inventory of Internet resources (Socrates project)

Speech Technology

Do you speak American? a set of interesting links about speech technology

An overview of the speech recognition process in the CSLU toolkit (Brief tutorial on speech recognition)

Speech analysis tutorial (waveforms, spectograms, with sound files)

Spectogram reading (CSLU tutorial on waveforms, spectograms, etc.)

speech recognition and VoiceXML

Parsing

A collection of materials and animations

VoiceXML

W3C "Voice Browser" activity (http://www.w3.org/Voice/)

VoiceXML Forum (http://www.voicexml.org)

Developer.com (Voice) (http://www.developer.com/voice/)

The XML Cover Pages VoiceXML Forum (Voice Extensible Markup Language Forum)

Voice Services: What sorts of voice applications are best suited for VoiceXML? Here are a few ideas. (http://www.voicexml.org/tutorials/intro6.html)

Testing VoiceXML applications

Sites with sample applications and demos:

Nuance Communications: http://www.nuance.com
Apple: http://www.apple.com/macos/speech/
SpeechStorm (Belfast): http://www.speechstorm.com/
Oracle: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/iaswe/voice/index.html
Intervoice: http://www.intervoice.com/
Loquendo demos: http://www.loquendo.com/en/industry_demos/index.htm
Google maps with voice search: http://www.google.com/mobile/blackberry/maps/voicesearch.html
Google voice search: http://www.google.com/goog411/
Live search 411 (Microsoft): http://www.livesearch411.com/

Spoken dialogue systems

CSLU Home Page (Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon)

LIMSI: Projects on spoken language (France)

Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory (NIS), Odense University, Denmark

SIGDIAL - special interest group of ACL for dialogue and discourse

Speech Applications Project (Sun Microsystems)

Speech-based and Pervasive Interaction Group (University of Tampere, Finland)

Spoken Language Systems Group (MIT)

TRAINS Project Home Page (University of Rochester)

Verbmobil (Large project based in Germany on spoken language and dialogue)

Waxholm dialog project (Sweden)

Companies

UK
Vox Generation
Fluency (includes banking system)
SpeechStorm (Belfast)

Ireland
Voxpilot

US
Nuance
Genesys
Oracle (Oracle Application Server Wireless: Voice)
Larson Technical Services
SpeechTek (Industrial exhibition and conference)
Speech Technology Magazine
Intervoice
Tuvox
Voice Partners (Note: a lively and original site)

Europe
Atlas (Spanish VoiceXML company)
Indisys (Spanish company with interesting demos and avatars)
Loquendo (Italian company)
Voice Objects (includes T-Mobile voice portal)