Spoken Language Systems

Spring 2004
Tuesdays, 9:10 ~12:00 AM
Instructor:
Berlin Chen

 

Topic List and Schedule
 

2/17

 
Statistical language model adaptation: review and perspectives (1/2)
(Speech Communication 42, 2004)
 
Presented by: 蔡文鴻
Slides
 
2/24
 
  Statistical language model adaptation: review and perspectives (2/2)
(Speech Communication 42, 2004)
 
Presented by: 蔡文鴻

 
3/2
 
A Survey On Web Information Retrieval Technologies (1/2)
(
Lan Huang, 2000)
 
Presented by: 黃耀民
Slides
 
3/9

 
Conversational Interfaces: Advances and Challenges  (1/2)
(Proceedings of The IEEE, Vol. 88, No. 8, August 2000)
 
Presented by: 郭人瑋
Slides
 
3/16

 
Conversational Interfaces: Advances and Challenges  (2/2)
(Proceedings of The IEEE, Vol. 88, No. 8, August 2000)
 
Presented by: 郭人瑋

 
3/23

 
 Naturalness in speech communications
(P. C. Lustgarten and B. H. Juang.)
 
Presented by: 郭人瑋
Slides
 
3/31



 
  A Survey On Web Information Retrieval Technologies (2/2)
(
Lan Huang, 2000)

A Study On Speaker Authentication Using Prosodic Information

 

Presented by: 黃耀民
Slides

Presented by: 陳子和
Slides

 
4/6 Break

 
4/13

 
Topics on Statistical Language Modeling and Adaptation: Latent Semantic Analysis (Reference: Pattern Recognition in Speech & Language Processing, Chapters 5, 6, 9) (1/2)
 
Presented by: 蔡文鴻
Slides

 
4/20

 
Topics on Statistical Language Modeling and Adaptation: Latent Semantic Analysis (Reference: Pattern Recognition in Speech & Language Processing, Chapters 5, 6, 9) (2/2)
 
Presented by: 蔡文鴻

 
4/27

 
Minimum Bayes-Risk Methods in Automatic Speech Recognition
(Reference: Pattern Recognition in Speech & Language Processing, Chapter 2, . V. Goel, W. Byrne) (1/2)
 
Presented by: 郭人瑋
Slides
 
5/4

 
  Minimum Bayes-Risk Methods in Automatic Speech Recognition
(Reference: Pattern Recognition in Speech & Language Processing, Chapter 2, . V. Goel, W. Byrne) (2/2)
 
 Presented by: 郭人瑋

 
5/11

 
   
 
5/18   Break (ICASSP 2004)  
5/25

 
A Survey On Speaker Authentication
(Reference: Pattern Recognition in Speech & Language Processing, Chapter 7, Q. Li, B.-H. Juang)
 
Presented by: 陳子和
Slides
 
6/1

 
Topics on Information Retrieval Technologies
(Reference: Pattern Recognition in Speech & Language Processing, Chapters 8, 12)
 
Presented by: 黃耀民

 
       

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