CSC3160 Fundamentals of Speech and Language Processing

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Prerequisites

• Basic Concepts of probability: It will be easier for you to understand some lectures if you know basics of probability.

Textbooks

Recommended Books:

• Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft), by Dan Jurafsky and James H. Martin

Grading Policy (CSC3160)

Assignments (40%)

• Assignment 1 (10%): Speech alignment and synthesis
• Assignment 2 (10%): Text processing
• Assignment 3 (10%): Word embedding and classification
• Assignment 4 (10%): TBD

Midterm exam (25%)

Date: Mar 11 (same as lecture time)

Scope: Lecture 1 - 11

Final exam (30%)

Date: May 8 (same as lecture time)

Scope: All lectures (including high-level concept from guest lectures)

For CSC3160 students, if you would like to work on the final project instead of the final exam. Please let me know in advance.

Final project (30%) [AIR6063 students only]

Due date: May 8 (EOD)

The project is to reproduce a paper within Amphion. Amphion team will provide you computational resources and guidelines. The topics range from text processing, modeling and speech processing. If you have a preference, please let the teaching team know, otherwise, we can discuss to select a paper for you to work on. You can work as a team (2 students) or as an individual. You need to write a project report (max 6 pages) for the final project. Here is the report template.

Rating guideline

• Implementation (20%): You need to submit your implementation in a single pull requestion. There are three categories for rating
• No pull request: 0%
• Pull request but not merged: Maximum 15%
• Merged pull request: Default 20%. Here is an example of merged pull request.
• Overall quality of report (10%): This is an overall evaluation of the final project report, including all dimensions: writing, creativity, convincing experiments and analysis.

Participation (5%)

Here are some ways to earn the participation credit, which is capped at 5%.

• Attending Guest lectures: In the second half of the course, we have four invited speakers. We encourage students to attend the guest lectures and participate in Q&A. All students get 0.75% per guest lecture (in total 3%) for either attending in person, or by writing a guest lecture report if they attend remotely or watch the recording.
• Completing feedback surveys: We will send out two feedback surveys during the semester to improve the course. All students get 0.5% per survey (in total 1%) for completing the surveys.
• Course and Teaching Evaluation (CTE): The school will send requests for CTE to all students. The CTE is worth 1% credit.
• Fixing a bug or write high-quality comments (at least one model file) for Amphion is worth 1% credit

Late Policy

The penalty is 0.5% off the final course grade for each late day.