BCSC 233: Statistical Speech & Language Processing

Cross-listed: 1CSC 248/448, BCSC 533
Prerequisites: 1CSC 172 and either 1CSC 240 or 1CSC 242
Offered: Fall

An introduction to statistical natural language processing and automatic speech recognition techniques. This course presents the theory and practice behind the recently developed language processing technologies that enable applications such as speech-driven dictation systems, document search engines (e.g., finding web pages) and automatic machine translation.