Tentative Topic List:

2012/01/03

 

Recent Developments in Speech Recognition Technologies and Their Applications

 

2008/05/12

 

Statistical Language Modeling for Speech Recognition and Information Retrieval

 

2008/05/12

 

Word Topical Mixture Models

 

2008/05/12

 

Introduction to SRILM Toolkit

 
2008/05/16   Exploiting Feature Distribution Characteristics for Robust Speech Recognition  
2008/06/16   A Survey on Spoken Document Indexing and Retrieval  
2008/07/21   Latent Semantic Approaches for Information Retrieval and Language Modeling  
2009/03/02   Decision Tree Learning  

References:

- Statistical Language Modeling

1.

J. R. Bellegarda, Statistical language model adaptation: review and perspectives, Speech Communication 42(11), 93-108, 2004

 

2.

R. Rosenfeld, Two decades of statistical language modeling: where do we go from here?, Proceedings of IEEE, August 2000

 

3.

J. Goodman, A bit of progress in language modeling, extended version Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2001-72, 2001

 
4. L.K. Saul and F.C.N. Pereira. Aggregate and mixed-order Markov models for statistical language processing. EMNLP1997  
5.
H.S. Chiu, B. Chen. Word topical mixture models for dynamic language model adaptation, ICASSP2007
 

- Information Retrieval Models

1.

X., W. Liu, B. Croft, Statistical language modeling for information retrieval. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 39, Chapter 1, 2005

 
     

- Indexing and Retrieval of Spoken Documents

1.

B. Chen, H.M. Wang, L.S. Lee, Spoken document retrieval and summarization, Advances in Chinese Spoken Language Processing, Chapter 13, 2006

2.

C. Chelba, T.J. Hazen, and M. Saraclar. Retrieval and Browsing of Spoken Content. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 25 (3), May 2008

3 C. Chelba, J. Silva and A. Acero. Soft Indexing of Speech Content for Search in Spoken Documents. Computer Speech & Language 21(3), 2007
4 M. Gilbert and J. Feng. Speech and Language Processing over the Web. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 25 (3), May 2008

- Indexing and Retrieval of Spoken Documents

1.

F. Casacuberta, M. Federico, H. Ney, and E. Vidal. Recent Efforts in Spoken Language Translation. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 25 (3), May 2008