
Professor John Coleman
Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford
Please note this course is not available in the 2021-22 academic year
Most textbooks and research literature in speech or language processing are too technical for students in humanities and social sciences, as these subjects are more normally taught in computer science or electronic engineering. And yet many of the techniques are not inherently difficult. This course is tailored to the background and training needs of humanists and social scientists working on speech and language.
Speech and Language Processing introduces a range of computational techniques for the analysis of speech and language, as developed in speech and language technology but here focused on their use in scientific research. The course introduces the necessary technical concepts as gently as possible and has a strongly practical focus. It covers the elements of signal processing, automata theory and parsing.
At the end of this course students will…