Language Engineering: Essays in Theory and Practice of Applied Natural Language Computing

Engineering Aspects.- Elements of a Natural Language Processing Technology.- Software Ergonomics of Natural Language Systems.- A Practical Approach to Testing a Natural Language System: Tools and Procedures.- Methodology.- Computertalk and Multimodality.- What a Grammar of Spoken Dialogues has to Deal With.- Human Language and the Computer.- Application.- System Architectures for Speech Understanding and Language Processing.- Natural Language Interfaces to Data Bases: Some Practical Issues.- The Semantics Application Interface.- Verification of Controlled Grammars.- Natural Language Products in Restricted and Unrestricted Domains.- Perspectives.- If Language Technology is the Solution, What, Then, is the Problem?.- “Natural„ Natural Language-Based Human-Computer Interaction.- The Role of Evaluation in Language Technology.- Some Remarks on: Language Technology — Myth or Reality?.- Language Technologies from the Terminologist’s Point of View.- The Development of Short and Medium Term Language Industries.

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