| Time | 8:00 to 8:50 AM MWF | |
| Place | CAVS classroom | |
| Instructor |
Joseph Picone Office: 2133 CAVS Office Hours: by appt. Email: picone@ece.msstate.edu |
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| URL | http://www.cavs.msstate.edu/research/isip/publications/courses/ece_7000_nlp | |
| Required Textbook(s) | Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin, An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0-13-095069-6, 2000. | |
| Prerequisite | X. Huang, A. Acero, and H.W. Hon, Spoken Language Processing - A Guide to Theory, Algorithm, and System Development, Prentice-Hall, ISBN: 0-13-022616-5, 2001. | |
| Reference Textbook(s) |
F. Jelinek,
Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition,
MIT Press, ISBN: 0-262-10066-5, 1998.
J. Deller, et. al., Discrete-Time Processing of Speech Signals, MacMillan Publishing Co., ISBN: 0-7803-5386-2, 2000. S. Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, Harperperennial Library, ISBN: 0-0609-5833-2, 2000. S. Furui, Digital Speech Processing, Synthesis, and Recognition, Marcel Dekker, ISBN: 0-8247-0452-5, 2000. D. O'Shaughnessy, Speech Communications: Human and Machine, IEEE Press, ISBN: 0-7803-3449-3, 2000. L.R. Rabiner and B.W. Juang, Fundamentals of Speech Recognition, Prentice-Hall, ISBN: 0-13-015157-2, 1993. L.R. Rabiner and R.W. Schafer, Digital Processing of Speech Signals, Prentice-Hall, ISBN: 0-13-213603-1, 1978. R.O. Duda, P.E. Hart, and D.G. Stork, Pattern Classification, Second Edition, Wiley Interscience, ISBN: 0-471-05669-3, 2000. S.J. Orfandis, Introduction to Signal Processing, Prentice-Hall, ISBN: 0-13-209172-0, 1996. |
| Final report | 50% |
| Special assignments | 25% |
| Lecture preparation | 25% |
| Class | Date | Section(s) | Scribe | Topic(s) | |
| 01 | 08/19 | 1.1 - 1.2 | SP | Introduction and role of knowledge in speech recognition | |
| 02 | 08/22 | 1.3 - 1.5 | SR | Models and algorithms | |
| 03 | 08/24 | 2.1 | SS | Regular expressions | |
| 04 | 08/26 | 2.2 | SPR | Finite state-automata | |
| 05 | 08/29 | 2.3 | MP | Regular languages and FSA's and summary of the chapter | |
| 06 | 08/31 | 3.1 | SP | Survey of English morphology | |
| 07 | 09/02 | 3.2 | SR | Finite state morphological parsing | |
| 08 | 09/07 | 4.2 - 4.3 | SS | Phonological rules | |
| 09 | 09/09 | 5.1, 5.4 | SPR | Spell checking and minimum edit distance | |
| 10 | 09/12 | 5.5 - 5.7 | MP | Spell checking and minimum edit distance contd... | |
| 11 | 09/14 | 5.4 | SP | Smoothing, backoff, deleted interpolation, entropy | |
| 12 | 09/16 | 5.1 - 5.3 | SR | English word classes, tagsets for English | |
| 13 | 09/19 | 6.4 - 6.5 | SS | Part of speech tagging and rule based tagging | |
| 14 | 09/17 | Lectures 1-13 | N/A | Q&A session | |
| 15 | 09/21 | 5.9 | SP | Weighted Automata | |
| 16 | 09/23 | 6.5.3 | SR | Grammar equivalence and normal form | |
| 17 | 09/26 | 6.5.3, 9.3.4 | SS | Finite-state grammars and context free grammars | |
| 18 | 09/28 | 9.3.3 | SPR | Chomsky hierarchy | |
| 19 | 09/30 | 9.1-9.4 | SS | CFG : Introduction | |
| 20 | 10/03 | 9.4 - 9.12 | SP | Noun phrase, coordination, agreements, verb phrase | |
| 21 | 10/05 | 8.2.1 | SR | Semantic augmentation to CFG rules | |
| 22 | 10/07 | lecture | SS | CFG | |
| 23 | 10/10 | 8.2.4, 4.4.2 | SPR | Information retrieval - selectional restriction-based approaches | |
| 24 | 10/12 | 8.2.4 | MP | Robust word sense disambiguation | |
| 25 | 10/14 | 4.4.3, 8.3 | SP | Vector space model, term weighting, and improving user queries | |
| 26 | 10/19 | 8.4 | SR | What makes dialog systems different? | |
| 27 | 10/21 | 4.5 | SS | Dialog structure and coherence | |
| 28 | 09/17 | Lectures 15-27 | N/A | Q&A session | |
| 29 | 10/23 | 8.5 | SPR | Dialog managers and conversational agents | |
| 30 | 10/26 | 11.1 | MP | A brief introduction to multilingual processing | |
| 31 | 10/28 | TBD | SP | TBD | |
| 32 | 10/31 | TBD | SR | TBD | |
| 33 | 11/02 | TBD | SS | TBD | |
| 34 | 11/04 | TBD | SPR | TBD | |
| 35 | 11/07 | TBD | MP | TBD | |
| 36 | 11/09 | TBD | SP | TBD | |
| 37 | 11/11 | TBD | SR | TBD | |
| 38 | 11/14 | TBD | SS | TBD | |
| 39 | 11/16 | TBD | SPR | TBD | |
| 40 | 11/18 | TBD | MP | TBD | |
| 41 | 11/21 | TBD | SP | TBD | |
| 42 | 11/28 | Lectures 29-41 | N/A | Q&A session | |
| 43 | TBD | Cumulative | N/A | Final report |