An introduction to the major topics in developing multilingual processing systems for speech recognition, text understanding, machine translation and related NLP applications Addresses techniques for multilingual speech and language processing, focusing primarily on methods that can simultaneously be applied to more than one language
Written by authors with respected international reputations, providing an important contribution to the literature on natural language processing
Accompanied by a set of lecture presentation slides to illustrate the topics and a glossary of particular languages that pose special challenges to speech and language processing