COMS 6998: Advanced Topics in Spoken Language Processing

Note: Schedule and readings are subject to change.

Date	Topic	Readings	Assignments
Week 1: 9/5	Introduction to SLP
Week 2: 9/12	From Sounds to Language	Jurafsky & Martin Chapter 7 (sections 1-3)
Week 3: 9/19	Acoustics of Speech	Jurafsky & Martin Chapter 7 (sections 4-7) Praat tutorial	Download Praat and bring laptop to class HW1 Assigned
Week 4: 9/26	Analyzing Speech Prosody	ToBI Conventions Modeling Prosody Prosody and Meaning	HW1 Due
Week 5: 10/3	Spoken Dialogue Systems	Jurafsky & Martin Chapter 24 Jurafsky & Martin Chapter 25	HW2 Assigned
Week 6: 10/10	Text-to-Speech Synthesis	Jurafsky & Martin Chapter 8 Merlin Tutorial	HW2 Due
Week 7: 10/17	Automatic Speech Recognition	Jurafsky & Martin Chapter 9 Deng & Yu Chapter 7
Week 8: 10/24	Speech Analysis: Personality and Mental State	Automatic Recognition of Personality in Conversation Detecting late-life depression in Alzheimer's disease through analysis of speech and languaage	Project Proposals Due
Week 9: 10/31	Speech Analysis: Deception and Trust	Acoustic-Prosodic Indicators of Deception and Trust in Interview Dialogues The sound of trustworthiness: Acoustic-based modulation of perceived voice personality (optional) Actual and Perceived Cues to Deception: A Closer Look at Speech
Week 10: 11/7	Speech Analysis: Sarcasm and Humor	"Sure, I did the right thing": A system for sarcasm detection in speech "Yeah, right": Sarcasm recognition for spoken dialogue systems Multimodal Indicators of Humor in Videos
Week 11: 11/14	Speech Analysis: Emotion	Classifying Subject Ratings of Emotional Speech Using Acoustic Features Using Context to Improve Emotion Detection in Spoken Dialog Systems Adieu features? end-to-end speech emotion recognition using a deep convolutional recurrent network	Literature Review Due
Week 12: 11/21	Speech Analysis: Entrainment	Measuring acoustic-prosodic entrainment with respect to multiple levels and dimensions Mark My Words! Linguistic Style Accommodation in Social Media Prosodic entrainment in Mandarin and English: a cross-linguistic comparison
Week 13: 11/28	Thanksgiving; no class
Week 14: 12/5	Final Project Presentations