LECTURE 07: SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS

• Objectives:
  
  
  • Understand the role of higher level knowledge in speech recognition
    
    
  • Introduce how we can exploit knowledge about the structure of language to improve speech recognition performance
    
    
  • Gain an appreciation for the fields of linguistics and natural language processing
    
    
  • Introduce alternate choices for acoustic units

Note that this lecture is primarily based on material from the course textbook:

X. Huang, A. Acero, and H.W. Hon, Spoken Language Processing - A Guide to Theory, Algorithm, and System Development, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA, ISBN: 0-13-022616-5, 2001.

A good reference textbook on these topics is:

D. Jurafsky and J.H. Martin, SPEECH and LANGUAGE PROCESSING: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition, Prentice-Hall, ISBN: 0-13-095069-6, 2000.