Natural Language and Speech System Design (P00887)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : INF-P-NLSSD

This course gives students an opportunity to work collaboratively on the specification, design, implementation and evaluation of a spoken language system of significant size and of current interest within the speech and language community, using mostly off-the-shelf components.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : PGs only. Students should be able to program in one or more of the following programming languages: C, C++, Java, Matlab, Perl or Python.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Cognitive Science, (School of Informatics, Schedule O)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 3 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
10/01/2006	16:00	17:00			4 Buccleuch Place, HCRC Conference Suite

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Tuesday	16:10	17:00	Central
Lecture	Friday	16:10	17:00	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

It is anticipated that students who complete the course will be able to:
-Refine an open-ended problem, resulting in the specification of a spoken language system;
-Implement generic speech and language technologies for a specific task;
-Work as part of a team and participate in group decision-making;
-Assess and use off-the-shelf research software for speech and language processing;
-Devise and satisfy realistic goals given external time constraints;
-Present the work done as reports, orally and within a system demonstration;
-Critically review and evaluate the resulting system.