Special Topics in Spoken Language Processing

Spring 2005
Thursdays, 2:10 ~5:00 PM
Instructor:
Berlin Chen

 

Topic List and Schedule
 

2/24

 
Course Overview
SP: Speech Feature Extraction (I)
IR: Relevance Models for Web Retrieval
 
3/3

 
  SP: Latent Semantic Entropy Principle for Language Modeling
SP: Robustness Techniques
 
 
3/10

 
SP: Speech Translation
IR: Web-based Topic Hierarchy Generation
 
 
3/17

 
SP: Speaker Authentication
IR: Topic Detection and Tracking
 
 
3/24
 
SP: Robustness
SP: Maximum entropy: combing syntactic and semantic information for LM
 
 
4/7

 
IR: New Speech Summarization Techniques and Metrics
IR: Ranking Strategies
 
 
4/14
 
  SP: MPE/MWE-based Discriminative Training of Acoustic and language Models
(MPE: Minimum Phone Error; MWE: Minimum Word Error)
 
 
4/21

 
SP: MPE-based Discriminative Training of Feature Transformations
SP: Entropy-based Feature Extraction
 
4/28
 
IR: Hierarchical Visual Presentation for Documents
 
 
5/5
 
SP: Language Modeling (ICASSP2005 paper survey)
 
 
5/12
 
SP: Acoustic Modeling (ICASSP2005 paper survey)
 
 
5/19
 
  SP: Feature Extraction (ICASSP2005 paper survey)
 
 
5/26
 
  SP: Feature Extraction
 
 
6/2
 
     

References:
 
Books:

1. W. Chou,. B.H. Juang. Pattern Recognition in Speech and Language Processing. CRC Press. (February 26, 2003)
 
2.
 
X. Huang, A. Acero, H. Hon. Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm and System Development. Prentice Hall. (April 25, 2001)
 
3.
 
W. B. Croft and J. Lafferty (Editors). Language Modeling for Information Retrieval. Kluwer-Academic Publishers, July 2003.
 
4.
 
R. Baeza-Yates and B. Ribeiro-Neto, Modern Information Retrieval. Addison Wesley Longman, 1999.
 
5.
 
C. Manning and H. Schutze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing. MIT Press, 1999.
 
6.
.
Wai C. Chu. Speech Coding Algorithms: Foundation and Evolution of Standardized Coders. Wiley-Interscience; 1st edition (March 7, 2003) 新月/東華 代理
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  Papers:

1.
 
Lawrence Rabiner. The Power of Speech. Science, Vol. 301, pp. 1494-1495, Sep. 2003.
 
2.

 
P. C. Lustgarten and B. H. Juang. Naturalness in speech communications. submitted to Special Issue of IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Processing, on Spontaneous Speech Processing, December 2002
 
3. Lan Huang. A Survey On Web Information Retrieval Technologies. 2000.

 Corpora:

1. The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing