Richard Sproat

Language, Technology, and Society

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This book traces the history of language technology from writing - the first technology specifically designed for language - to digital speech and other contemporary language systems. The book describes the social impact of technological developments over five millennia, and addresses topics such as the ways in which literacy has influenced cognitive and scientific development; the social impact of modern speech technology; the influence of various printingtechnologies; the uses and limitations of machine translation; how far mass information access is a means for exploitation or enlightenment; the deciphering of ancient scripts; and technica… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-161392-0
EAN: 9780191613920
Produktnummer: 13919092
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 6'046 KB

Über den Autor

Richard Sproat is a Professor in the Center for Spoken Language Understanding and the Division of Biomedical Computer Science, Oregon Health and Science University. He has been awarded seven patents for technological innovations and is the author of A Computational Theory of Writing Systems (CUP, 2000) and co-author with Brian Roark of Computational Approaches to Syntax and Morphology (OUP, 2007).