Special Topics in Spoken Language Processing

Spring 2006
Thursdays, 2:10 ~5:00 PM
Instructor:
Berlin Chen

Topic List and Schedule

2/21
 
Course Overview, by Berlin Chen
SP: A Decision Theoretic Formulation for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition, Part (I) (Chou & Juang, Ch. 3)
 
2/28
 
  Break
 
 
3/7
 
SP: A Decision Theoretic Formulation for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition, Part (II) (II)
 
 
3/14
 
IR: A Survey on Web Information Retrieval Technologies
 
 
3/21
 
SP: Machine Translation Using Statistical Modeling  (Chou & Juang, Ch. 11)
 
 
3/28
 
SP: Latent Semantic Entropy Principle for Language Modeling
 
 
4/4
 
  Break
 
 
4/11
 
SP: A Survey on Robustness Techniques
 
4/18
 
SP: Confidence Measures for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition
 
 
4/25
 
IR: Spoken Document Summarization Techniques
 
 
5/2
 
SP: Discriminative Training Approaches for Continuous Speech Recognition (fMPE)
 
 
5/9
 
  Break
 
 
5/16
 
  SP: Statistical Language Model Adaptation
 
 
5/23
 
  SP: Missing Feature Approaches for Speech Recognition
 
 
5/30
 
  SP: Improved Speech Recognition by Re-ranking Methods
 
 
6/6
 
     

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
.

  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