{"product_id":"9781118358696","title":"Crowdsourcing for Speech Processing Applications to Data Collection, Transcription and Assessment","description":"\u003ch1\u003eCrowdsourcing for Speech Processing\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eApplications to Data Collection, Transcription and Assessment\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMaxine Eskenazi | Gina-Anne Levow | Helen Meng | Gabriel Parent | David Suendermann\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eTechnology \u0026amp; Engineering \/ Electronics \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eProvides an insightful and practical introduction to crowdsourcing as a means of rapidly processing speech data\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntended for those who want to get started in the domain and  learn how to set up a task, what interfaces are available, how to assess the work, etc. as well as for those who already have used crowdsourcing and want to create better tasks and obtain better assessments of the work of the crowd. It will include screenshots to show examples of good and poor interfaces; examples of case studies in speech processing tasks, going through the task creation process, reviewing options in the interface, in the choice of medium (MTurk or other) and explaining choices, etc.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides an insightful and practical introduction to crowdsourcing as a means of rapidly processing speech data.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAddresses important aspects of this new technique that should be mastered before attempting a crowdsourcing application.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers speech researchers the hope that they can spend much less time dealing with the data gathering\/annotation bottleneck, leaving them to focus on the scientific issues. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReaders will directly benefit from the book’s successful examples of how crowd- sourcing was implemented for speech processing, discussions of interface and processing choices that worked and  choices that didn’t, and guidelines on how to play and record speech over the internet, how to design tasks, and how to assess workers.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eEssential reading for researchers and practitioners in speech research groups involved in speech processing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University, USA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr. Eskenazi is Principal Systems Scientist at the Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. She has authored over 100 scientific papers in the areas of computer assisted language learning and speech and spoken dialog systems. Her work has produced such systems as the Let's Go spoken dialog system and the REAP vocabulary tutor. She is also the founder and CTO of the Carnegie Speech Company.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGina-Anne Levow, University of Washington, USA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr. Levow is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics, University of Washington, USA. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Washington, she served on the faculty at the University of Chicago in the Department of Computer Science and as a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. She served on the Editorial Board of Computational Linguistics and as Associate Editor of \u003ci\u003eACM Transactions on Asian Language Processing\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHelen Meng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr. Meng is Founder and Director of the Human-Computer Communications Laboratory at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and is also the Founder and Co-Director of the Microsoft-CUHK Joint Laboratory for Human-Centric Computing and Interface Technologies, which was conferred the national status of the Ministry of Education of China (MoE) Key Laboratory in 2008. Prof. Meng also served as an Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Engineering from 2006 to 2010. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of the \u003ci\u003eIEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGabriel Parent, Amazon.com, USA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGabriel Parent is a Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com working on solving natural language related problems. His main research focuses were human-computer interaction through spoken dialog systems and crowdsourcing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Suendermann, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, Germany\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr. Sundermann is currently full Professor of Computer Science at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, Stuttgart, Germany. He is also the Principal Speech Scientist of SpeechCycle, New York, USA which has been recognized by Deloitte as a \"Technology Fast 500\" company based on revenue growth. He has authored more than 70 publications and patents, including a book and six book chapters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e06 May 2013\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781118358696\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e356\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e24.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44315349450892,"sku":"9781118358696","price":117.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781118358696_f57eae62-6aae-40b5-9353-8bd3b4d75904.jpg?v=1780108683","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781118358696","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}