Spoken Language Understanding: Systems for Extracting Semantic Information from Speech

A state of the art exploration of spoken language understanding, an active research field combining speech processing and language processing

Historically, speech processing and language processing communities came from different backgrounds, and current literature reflects this structure; there is very little that brings the two disciplines together to focus on spoken language understanding. Its interdisciplinary nature means it lacks the common ground for establishing benchmarks or having a single platform to communicate, unlike speech or natural language processing. This book is the first to focus exclusively on this growing topic.

·         Authorities in SLU from both academia and research contribute state of the art research and approaches.

·         Companion website hosting continually updated material, software and data sources.

·         Includes a strong data-driven, statistical approach.

·         A book with relevance to those working on industry/commercial applications of SLU, such as within call centres, robotics, and some smart environments such as cars.