LSA 2017: Intonation and Computation
Time: Mon/Thu 3:30-5:20
Place: TBA
Professor
Julia Hirschberg (Office Hours TBA)
julia@cs.columbia.edu
Announcements |
Academic
Integrity |
Description
Readings |
Resources |
Requirements |
Syllabus
Description
This
course introduces to computational linguistics approaches to the study of intonation.
Requirements
The major
requirement of the course will be to design an experiment to evaluate intonational characteristics of some type of speaker state.
Academic Integrity
Copying or paraphrasing someone's work without attribution is plagiarism and will result in a grade of zero for the assignment.
Please see the
university policy.
Required
texts
are available online via links from this syllabus.
Grading:
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50% Class participation
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50% Course Project
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50% Class participation
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50% Course Project
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Praat -
Praat resources
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Help using ToBI - ToBI
Annotation Environments
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Text-to-Speech Links
and more...
· Sox - audio file editing
Syllabus
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Reading Assignments |
HW Due Dates and Other Assignments |
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Jan 18 |
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| Jan 23 |
Spoken Dialogue: Human and Machine |
J&M 24-24.1, 24.8 |
Project Description assigned. Make appointments to talk with Prof or TAs about your project. |
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Jan 25 |
J&M 7.1-7.3, 7.5 |
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Jan 30 |
J&M 7.4 |
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Feb 1 |
Download Praat to your laptop if you have one and bring to class with headphones if you have. |
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| Feb 6 | Project Elevator Speeches and Lab Visit | BVC Contest |
Project Description due. Each team gives a 4-5m elevator speech about project in class. |
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Feb 8 |
J&M 8 (pp. 249-50, 281-84);
TTS-history;
Historical
examples |
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Feb 13 |
Rivka Levitan Project Part 1 (TTS) assigned |
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Feb 15 |
J&M 8.1,
Sproatetal01 |
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Feb 20 |
J&M 8.2; Ghoshaletal09 |
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Feb 22 |
Hirschberg03,
J&M 8.3.0-8.3.4,
ToBI labeling
conventions |
Download and listen to all the ToBI examples.
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Feb 27 |
J&M 8.3.4-8.3.7 |
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Feb 29 |
Takehome exercises (due in class Mar 7) |
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Mar 5 |
J&M &M 8.4-5, 8.6
Tokuda35al02 |
Project Part 1 due Project Part 2 (ASR) assigned (option: Installing Pocket Sphinx on your laptop) |
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Mar 7 |
Midterm |
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NB: Please deposit the take-home exercises for this exam in Courseworks before class. |
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Mar 12-16 |
Spring Break |
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| Mar 19 | Human Speech Perception | J&M 10.7 | |
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Mar 21 |
J&M 9-9.2 |
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Mar 26 |
Sphinx home page, examples: C++, Python |
Erica Cooper |
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Mar 28 |
J&M Ch 12-12.4 |
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Apr 2 |
J&M 4-4.4 |
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Apr 4 |
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J&M 6-6.5, 9.3-9.5 |
Michael Picheny, IBM Research |
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Apr 9 |
J&M 9.6-9.9
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Project Part 2 due Project 3 (SDS) assigned; Special Addition |
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Apr 11 |
J&M 24.2-3 |
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Apr 16 |
J&M 24.5, Hirschbergetal04 |
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Apr 18 |
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Apr 23 |
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Apr 25 |
J&M 24.4,
Walkeretal97
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Preliminary Project Demos |
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Apr 30 |
Final Exam |
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May 1-3 |
Study Days |
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May 9 |
Project Demos (1:10-4) |
CLIC Lab |
Project Part 3 due; Special Addition |
Links to Resources
cf. also resources available from the text homepage
Places to look up definitions and descriptions of terminology:
Other resources
- Karen Chung Language and Linguistics links
- CatSpeak
- Check out Eliza
- Appelt and Israel's information extraction tutorial (IJCAI-99).
- Framenet.
- Ask Jeeves-- a search engine that answers questions in plain English.
- Answer Bus -- another Q/A system.
- Columbia's NewsBlaster summarizer
- Systran machine translation (also in use at Babelfish)
- AT&T Labs - Research Finite State Machine Library
- Michael Collins' Parser
- On-line dictionaries in many languages.
- WordNet
- Framenet
- CoBuildDirect Corpus
- AT&T's SCANMail voicemail browsing/search system
- DiaLeague 2001 -- includes a link to an online dialogue system demo.
- James Allen's Dialogue Modeling for Spoken Language Systems ACL 1997 Tutorial
- Festival speech synthesizer demo and links to other TTS systems
- Julia Hirschberg's Intonational Variation in Spoken Dialogue Systems tutorial
Julia Hirschberg
Professor, Computer Science
Columbia University
Department of Computer Science
1214 Amsterdam Avenue
M/C 0401
450 CS Building
New York, NY 10027
email: julia@cs.columbia.edu
phone: (212) 939-7114