CS 276C Speech and Language Communication in Artificial Intelligence

Prerequisites: course 276A or 276B or consent of instructor. Topics in human-computer communication: interaction with pictorial information systems, sound and symbol generation by humans and machines, semantics of data, systems for speech recognition and understanding. Use of speech and text for computer input and output in applications.

Administrative Information

 http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~klinger/index.html

or http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~aklinger/main.html

Email klinger@cs.ucla.edu

Quizzes and Grading: Spot quizzes contribute to final grades. Seventy percent of the final grade in the course comes from the interim and final reports.

Fundamental References

Jurafsky, D., Martin, J., et. al., Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition, Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000.

Hausser, R., Foundations of Computational Linguistics: Man-Machine Communication in Natural Language, NY: Springer-Verlag, 1999.

Jelinek, F., Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition (Language, Speech, and Communication), Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1997.

Rabiner, L., Juang, B., Fundamentals of Speech Recognition, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: PTR Prentice Hall, 1993.

Klinger, A. (ed.), Human Machine Interactive Systems, New York, Plenum Press, 1991.


General References


Klinger, A., Fu, K. S., and Kunii, T. L. (eds.), Data Structures, Computer Graphics and Pattern Recognition, New York: Academic Press, 1977.

Klinger, A., "Recent Computer Science Research in Language Processing," American Journal of Computational Linguistics, 12, No. 3, pp. 2-25, July 1975.

Rhodes, M. L., and Klinger, A., "Conversational Text Input for Modifying Graphics Facial Images" In: Fuzzy Reasoning and its Applications, Mamdani, E. H., and Gaines, B. R. (eds.), Academic Press, 198l, pp. 273-287; International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 9: 653-667, 1977, and SIGART Newsletter 61 , pp. 58-61 (summary), February 1977.

Chandler, D., Semiotics - The Basics

Hayakawa, S. and MacNeil, R., Language in Thought and Action 1991.

Objectives:

  • Learning to work with speech/language research. .
  • Developing independent judgement of research.
  • Developing practical systems based on current technology.
  • Designing new applications of computer speech/language processes.

    Talks & Reports:

    Everyone gives three talks to the class. Fundamentals, applications, read articles, and book chapters provide source materials. Talk notes: copy, hand to participants. Reports include student-prepared figures, graphs or tables, careful bibliographic citations. Film transparencies, computer presentations start reports. Interim/final reports.