Books by Martin Kay

Since the dawn of the age of computers, researchers are trying tackle the challenge of developing software that can understand ordinary human language. This title contains several essays which shed light on the research in this field.

The Verbmobil System currently under development in Germany would input speech in a source-language dialogue, translate it, and output synthesized speech in a target language, all in real time under the conditions of face-to-face dialogue. This is a study of the field and possible problems.