Mobile Speech and Advanced Natural Language Solutions

Preface: Amy Neustein and Judith Markowitz

Growing Markets for Mobile Speech

Chapter One: Beyond Siri: Exploring Spoken Language in Warehouse Operations, Offender Monitoring and Robotics by Judith Markowitz

Chapter Two Speech's Evolving Role in Consumer Electronics...From Toys to Mobile by Todd Mozer

Chapter Three: The Personal-Assistant Model: Unifying the Technology Experience by William Meisel

Innovations in Natural Language Processing

Chapter Four: Natural Language Processing: Past, Present and Future by Deborah Dahl

Chapter Five: Sequence Package Analysis: A New Natural Language Method for Mining User-Generated Content for Mobile Uses by Amy Neustein

Chapter Six: Getting Past the Language Gap: Innovations in Machine Translation by Rodolfo Delmonte

Empirical Studies of Natural Language and Mobility Chapter

Seven: Language Technology in Mobile Devices: Two Grounding Frameworks by Jerome R. Bellegarda

Chapter Eight: Empirical Exploration of Language Modeling for the google.com Query Stream as Applied to Mobile Voice Search by Ciprian Chelba and Johan Schalkwyk

Chapter Nine: Information Extraction: Robust Mention Detection Systems by Imed Zitouni, John Pitrelli and Radu Florian

Chapter Ten: A Name is Worth a Thousand Pictures: Referential Practice in Human Interactions with Internet Search Engines by Robert J. Moore

Future Trends in Mobile Speech

Chapter Eleven: Summarizing Opinion-Related Information for Mobile Devices by Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amanda J. Stent and Robert Gaizauskas

Chapter Twelve: Mobile Speech and the Armed Services: Making a Case for Adding Siri-like Features to VAMTA (Voice-Activated Medical Tracking Application) by James A. Rodger and James A. George

Chapter Thirteen: Revisiting TTS - New Directions for Better Synthesis by Jonathan Pearl

Chapter Fourteen: "Super- Natural" Language Dialogues: In Search of Integration by Bruce Balentine

Editors' biographies