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The attempt to simulate dialogues in Natural Language by a machine requires extensive analyses of Natural Language's expression and content phenomena. Sometimes fully self-explanatory or content-related expression units within carrier systems of isolated morphologies guarantee significant insights into phenomena of Natural Language's content.

The point of departure of this general survey of modern structural linguistics is the place of language in human relations. The book may, however, be of some value also for the general reader who is interested in language, in language learning, or in communication processes.

Information theory and cybernetics have developed along somewhat different lines in Europe and in the U. Anyone who seeks to apply information theory in the fields of education and psychology very soon comes up against a central diffi culty: in the form in which it was developed by Shannon information theory excludes the semantic aspect.

The first edition of this book has enjoyed a gratifying existence. As before, the intended audience is the graduate-Ievel engineer and physicist, but the psycho physicist, phonetician, speech scientist and linguist should find material of interest.

During recent years auditory research has advanced quite rapidly in the area of experimental psychology as well as in that of physiology. The present proceedings comprise the papers, which were circulated to the participants two months before the syrnposium and discussed during the syrnposium, together with some cornrnents and additional re marks.

The many different mathematical techniques used to solve pattem recognition problems may be grouped into two general approaches: the decision-theoretic (or discriminant) approach and the syntactic (or structural) approach.

During the past ten years a new area in speech processing, generally referred to as linear prediction, has evolved. In mid-1974, we decided to begin an extra hours and weekends project of organizing the literature in linear prediction of speech and developing it into a unified presentation in terms of content and terminology.

About the Scope of This Text This book contains two types of material ~ first, the many divergent and often diffuse meanings given to the concepts of association, associative memory, and associative recaZZ are expounded.

Sponsored by the Institut for Perception Research, Eindhoven, Netherlands, and held under the auspices of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akad. van Wetenschappen and the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Zuiver Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

This monograph deals with curious and little-known acoustic systems of commun ication based on whistling that are in use at the present time in many parts of the world and have had, on the evidence available, even greater currency in the past.

This paperback edition is essentially the same as the original hardcover volume except for the addition of a new chapter (Chapter 7) which reviews the recent advances in pattern recognition and image processing.