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Category (C: compulsory, O: optional)

Course code

Number of ECTS credits

Hours

Semester

Basic notions

Structure of language

Morphology and the lexicon

Inflectional morphology

Dervational morphology

Structure of the lexicon

Morphological theory

Syntax

Context free phrase-structure grammars

Evaluating grammars

Syntactic theory

Semantics

Lexical semantics

Meaning above the word

Formal semantics

Pragmatics

Speech acts

Conversational implicature

Grice

Discourse

Models of discourse structure

Information structure

Introduction

Application of NLP

The different analysis levels used for NLP

Markup (TEI, UNICODE)

Finite state automata, transducers

Lexical level

Error-tolerant lexical processing

Design of morphologic analysers

Part-of-speech tagging [Brill, HMM]

Efficient representations for
linguistic resources

Syntactic level

Grammars

Parsing

Automated estimation of probabilistic model parameters

Data Oriented Parsing

Semantic level

Logical forms

Ambiguity resolution

Semantic networks

Semantic parsers

Procedural semantics

Logical semantics

Vector Space semantics

Pragmatic level

Knowledge representation

Reasoning

Plan/goal recognition

Speech acts/intentions

Belief models

Discourse

Reference

Natural language generation

Content determination

Sentence planning

Surface realisation

Other approaches

Statistical/corpus-based NLP

Connectionist NLP

Speech production

Sound source

Articulation

Coarticulation

Prosody

Acoustic phonetics

Fant's source-filter model

Experimental methods and tools

Acoustic properties of speech sounds

Speech perception

Auditory system

Psycho-acoustics

Perception of speech units

Taxonomic phonemics

Phonemes and allophones

Minimal Pairs

Syllable structure

Phonological processes

Distinctive features

Jacobson: Acoustic features

Generative Phonology: Sound Pattern of English

Rules

Non-linear phonology

Autosegmental phonology

Metrical phonology

Other non-linear models
(eg. feature geometry, dependency phonology)

Introduction

Acoustic/phonetic perception

Cues, feature detectors

Categorical perception

Models for production-oriented theories: analysis by synthesis, motor theory, quantal theory

Models for perception-oriented theories:auditory theory of speech perception, hyper/hypo theory

Lexical recognition

Language acquisition and language development

Speech recording and digitisation

Signal processing tools

Digital filters

Fourier series and Transforms (DFT, FFT)

Short-Term Fourier transforms

Filter banks

Speech analysis and parameter
extraction

Short-term analysis

Time-domain analysis

Frequency-domain analysis

Cepstral analysis

Linear prediction analysis

Pitch and formant estimation

Speech signal synthesis

Speech coding

Speech enhancement

Deterministic pattern recognition

Distances

Data clustering

Decision and regression trees

Dynamic programming and dynamic time warping

Statistical pattern recognition

Maximum a posteriori and maximum likelihood classification

Likelihood Estimation-Maximization (EM) algorithm

Discriminant functions, artificial neural networks

Stochastic finite state automata and discrete Markov Models

Hidden Markov models (HMM)

Generic Technologies

Speech recognition

Speech synthesis / TTS

Speaker identification / verification

Text processing

Text analysis / generation

Integration of speech and text processing

Multidmodal integration

Corpora

Current applications

Command-and-control

Intelligent MultiMedia (MultiModal) systems

Spoken dialogue systems

Information Retrieval (IR) and Extraction (IE)

Dictation

Machine Translation (MT)

Computer Aided Language Learning (CALL)

Systems design

Requirements, development, evaluation and testing

Empirical methods (databases, knowledge elicitation eg. Wizard of Oz)

Architectures & communications systems

Standards: eg. EAGLES

Tools and platforms (hands-on experience)

Tools, eg. Waves, Matlab, Entropic, HTK

Prolog

Lisp

C

Java

Perl

Matlab