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Text- and Speech-Triggered Information Access: Introduction

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Years of speech and billions of characters are stored in various media including the Internet. How can we ever find useful information in such vast archives? Automatic procedures that can recognise speech accurately and linguistic tools that automatically take out essential information components may do the job.

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Grefenstette, G., Renals, S. (2003). Text- and Speech-Triggered Information Access: Introduction. In: Renals, S., Grefenstette, G. (eds) Text- and Speech-Triggered Information Access. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2705. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45115-0_1

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