Cours postgrade 2002-Language and Speech Engineering

Postgraduate Course in Computer Science

February 2002 - December 2002

Language and Speech Engineering

Room INF 213

===> Detailed booklet of the course 2002 (doc pdf)
===> Bibliography - doc. pdf
===> Euromaster : AdvertisementMasters.pdf - List of courses

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Registration form P1 - postgraduate course - doc. pdf
Registration form C1 - modules doc. pdf

Objectives	Organization
Organization committee	Topics covered

Objectives:	With the rapid growth of the language and speech industry, there is an increasing need for specialists able to work in multi-disciplinary projects combining elements of speech processing, natural language processing, and computer science. The content of this Postgraduate Course is part of an innovative curriculum in the framework of a European Masters in Language and Speech. The course provides the theoretical and practical background required to obtain the qualification for efficient team work in modern language and speech engineering. In collaboration with the University of Geneva, this unique curriculum provides an extensive introduction to the major areas of speech and language technology. Strengthening inter-disciplinary connections, it includes lectures on speech signal processing, speech and speaker recognition, and natural language processing, introductions to language engineering applications, and linguistic training for language and speech engineers.
Topics covered:	M1 - Basic linguistic training for engineers February 26-27 and March 5-6, 2002 - Linguistic background for NLP - Linguistic models for parsing and generation - Lexical semantics M2 - Digital Signal Processing and Statistical Pattern Recognition March 14-15 and March 21-22, 2002 - Digital signals and systems - Discrete Fourier transforms - Digital filters and design, Adaptive filters - Statistical pattern recognition M3 - Natural Language Processing april 18-19 April 18-19, April 25-26 and May 2-3, 2002 - Finite state techniques for lexical and morphological processing - Shallow parsing, stochastic grammars - Computational semantics M4 - Speech Analysis, Synthesis and Coding May 13-14, and May 16-17, 2002 - Speech signal modeling and analysis techniques - Synthesizers and automatic text-to-speech conversion - State-of-the-art speech coding techniques and standards M5 - Speech and Speaker Recognition - May 23-24 (Room INF 211) and May 30-31, 2002 (Room INF 213) - Automatic speech recognition - Speaker recognition - State-of-the-art recognition systems M6 - Language Engineering Applications June 6-7, June 13-14 and June 202-21, 2002 - Advanced information retrieval and extraction - Automated information extraction - Multilingual language processing
Language:	English and French
Organization	The course will take place from February 2002 to December 2002. Its total duration is 200 hours, distributed in 6 modules divided into compact sessions of 2 days each. In general, mornings are taken up by lectures, and afternoons are devoted to practical exercises. Registration is possible for any selection of modules. The course will also include a project (+ 150 hours) related to any of the course modules.
Organization committee:	Directors of the course : Dr. Martin Rajman - Artificial Intelligence Lab, EPFL Prof. Hervé Bourlard - Artificial Intelligence Lab, EPFL, Director of IDIAP Members: Prof. Murat Kunt - Signal Processing Lab (LTS) - EPFL Dr. Andrzej Drygajlo - Signal Processing Lab (LTS) - EPFL Prof. Eric Wehrli - LATL - Uni-Genève
Target audience	This course should be of direct interest to all people, including university level graduate students and industry representatives (with a sufficient university degree), involved (or planning to be involved) in research and/or development works related to speech and language engineering. Given its multi-disciplinary nature, the cycle is also open to students with different backgrounds, and consequently different university degrees, provided they have some minimum pre-requisites and a motivated interest in language technology. Finally, for people simply interested in extending their knowledge in some specific areas, each course will also be proposed as an independent module.
Conditions for admission:	You are required to have a degree from a Swiss Federal Institute of Technology or University, or another equivalent diploma. Experience in programming and basic knowledge in computer science is required.
Certificate	Candidates who complete successfully the complete course and project will receive a "certificat de spécialisation postgrade en informatique".
Deadline for registration:	Postgraduate program: January 11, 2002 Continuing Education Program (individual modules): details will be available in September
Fees:	Postgraduate program: CHF. 2'200.-- - (including CHF. 550.-- for inscription) Continuing Education Program: details will be available in September A3E2PL Members: 10% reduction on course costs. ETHZ and EPFL staff : please contact the course secretary.
Euromaster:	The present Postgraduate Course can be taken as a partial fulfilment of the Swiss implementation of the European Masters in Language and Speech endorsed by the European Speech Communication Association and the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. The students of the postgraduate course will be given the possibility to complement their postgraduate curriculum in order to fulfill all requirements of the "Masters" (45 ECTS credits of courseload and 15 ECTS credits of project) and receive the corresponding European certificate. The project realized in the postgraduate curriculum will be recognized as the Euromasters project work (typically three months). It is also foreseen that the Euromaster students will be given the possibility to meet with the other students involved in similar programs implemented in the other European partner universities in the framework of a European school.