Special Topics in Spoken Language Processing

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
.

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

　

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

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 .

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.

1.		The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing