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.