READING LIST for COSC 6328 (Winter 2006)

Ones marked with * are required for all students. Others are optional for further exploration.

Category A: Applications and Background

*[A1] R. V. Cox, C. A. Kamm, L. R. Rabiner, J. Schroeter and J. G. Wilpon, “Speech and Language Processing for Next Millennium Communications Service”, Proceeding of The IEEE, pp. 1314—1337, Vol. 88, No. 8, August 2000.

[A2] J. Makhoul, F. Kubala, T. Leek, D. Liu, L. Nguyen, R. Schwartz and A. Srivastava, “Speech and Language Technologies for Audio Indexing and Retrieval”, Proceeding of The IEEE, pp. 1338—1353, Vol. 88, No. 8, August 2000.

Category B: Math Foundation

[B1] Appendix “Mathematical Foundation” , excerpt from Pattern Classification (2^nd Edition) by R. O. Duda, P. Hart and D. Stork. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISBN 0-471-05669-3)

Category C: Model Estimation

[C1] T. K. Moon, “The Expectation-Maximization Algorithm”, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, pp.47—60, Nov. 1996.

Category D: Pattern Verification

[D1] C.-H. Lee, “A Tutorial on Speaker and Speech Verification”, Proc. of NORSIG, 1998.

Category E: HMM

[E1] L. R. Rabiner, “A Tutorial on Hidden Markov Models and selected Applications in Speech Recognition”, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 77, No. 2, Feb. 1989. (only pp.257—267 are required)

Category F: HMM Applications in speech recognition.

[F1] Steve Young, et. al. , “The HTK Book (for HTK version 3.4)”, Microsoft Corporation. HMM Toolkit (HTK) Book.

[F2] Steve Young, “Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition, A Review”, 1996.