First published in France in 2002 by Hermes Science/Lavoisier entitled Traitement automatique du langageparl 1 et 2 LAVOISIER, 2002

First published in Great Britain and the United States in 2009 by ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Traitement automatique du langage parl  1 et 2. English Spoken language processing / edited by Joseph Mariani.   p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.

TK7895.S65T7213 2008

006.4'54--dc22

2008036758

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