SYLLABUS

Contact Information:

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
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.

Grading Policies:

Final report 50%
Special assignments 25%
Lecture preparation 25%
Schedule:

The entries in the column labeled Section(s) refer to reading assignments in the course textbook.

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