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

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Elements of a Natural Language Processing Technology....Pages 15-32
Software Ergonomics of Natural Language Systems....Pages 33-60
A Practical Approach to Testing a Natural Language System: Tools and Procedures....Pages 61-84
Computertalk and Multimodality....Pages 85-99
What a Grammar of Spoken Dialogues has to Deal With....Pages 101-126
Human Language and the Computer....Pages 127-137
System Architectures for Speech Understanding and Language Processing....Pages 139-157
Natural Language Interfaces to Data Bases: Some Practical Issues....Pages 159-178
The Semantics Application Interface....Pages 179-192
Verification of Controlled Grammars....Pages 193-210
Natural Language Products in Restricted and Unrestricted Domains....Pages 211-224
If Language Technology is the Solution, What, Then, is the Problem?....Pages 225-230
”Natural” Natural Language-Based Human-Computer Interaction....Pages 231-238
The Role of Evaluation in Language Technology....Pages 239-247
Some Remarks on: Language Technology — Myth or Reality?....Pages 249-251
Language Technologies from the Terminologist’s Point of View....Pages 253-261
The Development of Short and Medium Term Language Industries....Pages 263-272