SALT Definition

Included in the definition of SALT is:

• Speech technology
  (speech recognition, speaker recognition, text-to-speech techniques,
  speech coding and enhancement, multilingual speech processing)
• Written language input
  (optical character recognition, handwriting recognition)
• Language analysis, understanding and generation
  (grammar, semantics, parsing, discourse and dialogue)
• Document processing
  (text and term extraction, interpretation, summarization)
• Machine translation
  (including computer-aided translation, multilingual information retrieval)
• Multimodality
  (gesture and facial movement recognition, visualisation of text data)
• Language resources
  (written and spoken corpora, lexica, terminology)
• Evaluation
  (of all of the above)

This definition follows the Survey of the State of the Art.

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