Speech and Language Processing

Teaching

Kim Gerdes and Marc Evrard

Class hours

Friday, 2:00 pm to 5:15 pm (nov-dec)

Prerequisite

• Foundational Principles of Machine Learning (TC0)
• Hands on Natural Language Processing (TC3)

Summary

Introductory class on speech and natural language processing. The class is organized in a series of seminars proposed by researchers in the field.

Outline

• Seminar 1:
  • General Introduction (Marc Evrard)
  • Voice Recognition (Claude Barras)
• Seminar 2: Speech processing + ASR Practical (Marc Evrard)
• Seminar 3: Automatic Emotion Recognition (Laurence Devillers)
• Seminar 4: From Linguistics to Natural Language Processing (Iona Vasilescu)
• Seminar 5: Treebanks and Oral Syntax (Kim Gerdes)
• Seminar 6: Speech Interaction (Samir Bennacef)
• Seminar 7: Conclusion, Preparation of Paper Reading Assignment (Kim Gerdes)

Assessment

• Session 1: 40% attendance, 60% CCTP1 (ASR Practical + Paper Reading)
• Session 2: 40% attendance, 60% CCTP2 (ASR Practical + Paper Reading) \ (makeup)