This course provides an introduction to speech signal processing and natural language processing. Topics include fundamentals and recent advances in the theory and practice of speech and language processing, such as hidden Markov models, automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, speech coding, morphological analysis, syntactic analysisシ径nd information retrieval.
1. Spoken language and human interface
2. Human speech production and speech analysis
3. Parametric representation of speech signals
4. Statistical modeling of speech using hidden Markov model (HMM)
5. Speech recognition
6. Speech synthesis
7. Speech coding, speech enhancement, and other applications
8. Introduction to language processing
9. Morphological analysis for Japanese: Word segmentation
10. Morphological analysis for English: POS tagging
11. Top-down/Bottom-up parsing
12. Probabilistic Context Free Grammar
13. Foundation of information retrieval
14. Text mining
Lecture notes will be handed out in class.
Students are expected to have basic knowledge on discrete-time signal processing and probability theory.
Evaluation will be based on homework and final exam.