文档介绍：Preface
The chapters in this book represent the e of a researchworkshop
held at the Park Hotel Fiorelle, Sperlonga, 16- 20 May 1988. Twenty-five
participants gatheredin this small coastal village in Italy , wherethe Emperor
Tiberius kept a Summerhouse , to discusspsycholinguistic puta-
tional issuesin speechand natural-languageprocessing .
The workshop itself would not have been possible without the very
generousfinancial support of British International , who agreed
not only to the funding of the 1988 meeting but also to the funding of
further meetingsof the workshop in subsequentyears . Special thanks are
due to John Matthews at BTI and Fred Stentiford at British
ResearchLaboratories. Additional funding was provided by the American
Association for Artificial Intelligence.
The original idea to run a researchworkshop in Italy on cognitive models
of speechprocessing arose during a conversation one wet and windy night
in Edinburgh with Anne Cutler, who was attending a linguistics conference
at the university and simultaneously bemoaning the weather. anization
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of this workshop would not have been possible without Anne s
encouragementand support, as well as that of Ellen Bard and Richard
Shillcock.
Thanks are also due to the local council of Sperlonga, which provided
transport, and to Mr . and Mrs. Cosmo di Mille , owners of the Park Hotel
Fiorelle, in which the workshop was held. The essof the workshop is
in part a reflection of the amenities they offered and in particular the
excellent food.
My thanks also go to my colleaguesat the Centre for SpeechTechnology
Research, University of Edinburgh, for their support and encouragement
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during the run up to the workshop and to my colleaguesat the Laboratory
of Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex, for their supportdurlng
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the production of this book. I am grateful both to the authors themselves
and to the following for participating in the review process during