Speech and IR

While the Monitor paid a lot of attention to natural language processing technologies such as translation software, it also covered other language technologies regularly, including speech recognition and information retrieval applications. Here are several speech technology pieces:

• Deutsch Mit Style, Jul/Aug 1991
• Janet Baker’s Optimism, Mar/Apr 1992
  • DARPA’s MT Thrust
• Lernout & Hauspie: new priorities, May-June 1992
• Have a word with your Mac, July-Aug 1992

And here are some information retrieval and document management topics:

• Automatic Information Fefining: a Reuters Success Story, May/Jun 1991
• Human Inference, Nov/Dec 1991
• Getting Europe’s libraries online, Jul-Aug 1992
  • Admyte: an electronic archive of medieval Spanish
• Archis: Electronic Document Management for the Macintosh, Sep-Oct 1992
• Corpus Cruncher, Jan/Feb 1993
• Oracle’s Linguistic Gold Mine, Mar-Apr 1993
• PolyDoc’s Docucentric Universe, Jul-Aug 1993 (cover story)
  • DSM: chemicals and information
• A Nose for Text, July-Aug 1994 (cover story)
• NAFTA Cruncher, Sep-Oct 1994

Natural language interfaces

The topic of natural language interfaces was a popular one in the early 90s:

• BIM: testing the NLP waters, May-June 1992
• New Life for Intellect?, Sep-Oct 1992
• Say it in English (not SQL), Mar-Apr 1994 ,

Linguistic software

Here are stories on a number of suppliers of multilingual software tools primarily targetted at application developers.

• Houghton Mifflin’s Software Strategy Pays Off, May-June 1993
• IBM’s Linguistic Treasure Chest, May-June 1993
• Life Beyond Spellcheckers, July-Aug 1993
  • Multilingual writing tools: they can only get better
• Of Synonyms and Fuzzy Searches, Nov-Dec 1993
• Meet InfoSoft International, Mar-Apr 1994
• XLT: Ready for Liftoff, July-Aug 1994
• The Hungarian Touch, Nov-Dec 1994

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