Onomasiological block II: abbreviations

1. AD: Articulatory Data
2. ADPCM: Adaptive Differential PCM
3. AGC: Automatic Gain Control
4. AI: Articulation Index
5. AI: Artificial Intelligence
6. ANN: Artificial Neural Network
7. ANOVA: Analysis of Variance
8. ANSI: American National Standards Institute
9. API: Application Programming Interface
10. ARPA: Advanced Research Program Agency
11. ARPA: Advanced Research Projects Agency
12. sc Ars: Adverse Recognition System
13. ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange
14. ASG: Automatic Speech Generation
15. ASR: Automatic Speech Recognition
16. sc Atis: Air Line Travel Information System
17. ATM: Automatic Teller Machine
18. BAS: Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals
19. BNC: British National Corpus
20. BNF: Backus Naur Form (Backus Normal Form)
21. CA: Contextual Appropriateness
22. CART: Classification And Regression Trees
23. CD-ROM: Compact Disk-Read Only Memory
24. CFA: Confirmatory Factor Analysis
25. CLID: CLuster IDentification
26. COCOSDA: International Committee for Collaboration in Speech Assessment and Databases
27. CPT: Complete Phonetic Theory
28. CPU: Central Processing Unit
29. CR: Correction Rate
30. sc Cril: Computer Representation of Individual Languages
31. CTI: Computer Telephony Integration
32. CTS: Concept-To-Speech
33. CVC: Consonant Vowel Consonant
34. CVSD: Continuously Variable Slope Delay
35. DAT: Digital Audio Tape
36. DATR: Default ATtribute Representation
37. DBMS: DataBase Management System
38. DD: Dialogue Duration
39. DDL: Dialogue Description Language
40. DP: Dynamic Programming
41. DPSIE: Diagnostic Pairs Sentence Intelligibility
42. : Evaluation Test
43. DRA: Defence Research Agency
44. DRT: Diagnostic Rhyme Test
45. DSP: Digital Signal Processing
46. DTMF: Dual Tone Multi-Frequency
47. DTW: Dynamic Time Warping
48. DVI: Direct Voice Input
49. DVO: Direct Voice Output
50. sc Eagles: Expert Advisory Group on Language Engineering Standards
51. EER: Equal Error Rate
52. EIN: Equivalent Input Noise
53. ELRA: European Language Resources Association
54. ELSA: ESPRIT Labelling System Assessment software
55. EM: Expectation-Maximisation
56. EMA: Electromagnetic Articulography
57. EMG: electromyograph
58. EUROPEC: European Program d'Enregistrement de Corpus
59. FRANCIL: Re0.2ex'seau Francophone de l'Inge0.2ex'nierie de la Langue
60. GLIM: Generalised LInear Modelling Techniques
61. GNE: Glottal-to-Noise Excitation
62. GUI: Graphical User Interface
63. HCI: Human-Computer Interaction
64. HENR: Human Equivalent Noise Ratio
65. HMM: Hidden Markov Model
66. HP: high pass filter
67. HPSG: Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
68. IC: Integrated Circuit
69. ICASSP: International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
70. ICPhS: International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
71. ICSLP: International Conference on Spoken Language Processing
72. ILEX: Integrated LEXicon
73. IPA: International Phonetic Alphabet
74. IPO: Instituut voor Perceptie Onderzoek
75. IVR: Interactive Voice Response
76. KRL: Knowledge Representation Language
77. LDC: Linguistic Data Consortium
78. LES: Language Engineering Standards
79. LKRL: Lexical Knowledge Representation Language
80. LOO: Leaving-One-Out
81. LP: low pass filter
82. LRE: Linguistic Research and Engineering Programme
83. LTI: Linear and Time-Invariant system
84. Lin-PCM: Linear Pulse Code Modulation
85. Log-PCM: Logarithmic Pulse Amplitude Modulation
86. MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
87. MMI: Man-Machine Interaction
88. MNRU: Modulated Noise Reference Unit
89. sc Morpa: MORphological PArser
90. MPI Test: Minimal Pairs Intelligibility Test
91. MRPA: Machine Readable Phonetic Alphabet
92. MRT: Modified Rhyme Test
93. MVIP: Multi-Vendor Integration Protocol
94. NERC: Network of European Reference Corpora
95. NIST: National Institute of Standards
96. NL: Natural Language
97. NLP: Natural Language Processing
98. NPL: National Physical Laboratory
99. OCR: Optical Character Recognition
100. OGI: Oregon Graduate Institute
101. OOV: out-of-vocabulary
102. OS: Operating System
103. PABX: Private Automatic Branch Exchange
104. PBX: Private Branch Exchange
105. PAM: Pulse Amplitude Modulation
106. PB: phonetically balanced
107. PCM: Pulse Code Modulation
108. PD: Phonetic Discrimination
109. PDA: Pitch Determination Algorithm
110. PDI: Pitch Determination Instrument
111. PEB: Pulse coded modulation Expansion Bus
112. PIN: Personal Identification Number
113. PMT: Parametric Test Manager
114. POS: Part Of Speech
115. PSTN: Public Switched Telephone Network
116. PTS: Progiciel de Traitement de Signal
117. PZM: pressure zone microphone
118. RAM: Random Access Memory
119. ROARS: Robust Analytical Recognition System
120. ROC: Receiver Operating Characteristic
121. RSRE: Royal Signals Research Establishment
122. RT: Reverberation Time
123. sc Sam: Speech Assessment Methods (ESPRIT project)
124. SAMITPRO: SAM Iterative Proportional Fitting
125. SAMPA: Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet
126. SAMPROSA: SAM PROSodic Alphabet
127. SAMTRA: SAM TRanscription Analysis
128. SAM_SCOR: SAM Input Assessment Scoring Software
129. SAM_SLM: SAM Speech Level Measuring program
130. SAM_SPEX: SAM Speech Parameter EXtractor
131. SCATIS: Spatially Coordinated Auditory/Tactile Interactive Scenario
132. SCSA: Signal Computing System Architecture
133. TAO: Telephony Application Object
134. SCR: System Correction Rate
135. SDL: Specification and Description Language
136. SDS: Spoken Dialogue System
137. SDT: Signal Detection Theory
138. SGML: Standard Generalized Markup Language
139. SI: speech input
140. SIFT: Simple Inverse Filtering Tracking
141. SIO: Speech Input/Output
142. SL: Spoken Language
143. SLM: Speech Level Meter
144. SLP: Spoken Language Processing
145. SLWG: (EAGLES) Spoken Language Working Group
146. SNR: Signal-to-Noise Ratio
147. SOAP: Speech Output Assessment Package
148. SOS: Second-Order Statistics
149. SPL: Sound Pressure Level
150. SQL: Standard Query Language
151. SS: Speech Synthesis
152. STAG: Speech Technology Assessment Group
153. STS: Speech-to-speech Translation System
154. SUS: Semantically Unpredictable Sentences
155. SUS: Speech Understanding System
156. TEI: Text Encoding Initiative
157. TFW: Time-Frequency Warping
158. TS: Transaction Success
159. TSAPI: Telephony Services Application Programming Interface
160. TTS: Text-To-Speech
161. ToBI: Tones and Break Indices (transcription)
162. UCL: University College London
163. UCR: User Correction Rate
164. VR: Voice Response
165. VRU: Voice Response Unit
166. WIF: Word form Interchange Format
167. WORM: Write Once Read Many
168. WOZ: Wizard of Oz
169. WSJ: Wall Street Journal