Invited Lecture at the Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School,
MSRA 2006 Summer Course on Next Generation Internet Information
Processing Technologies
微软亚洲研究院 2006 年新一代互联网信息处理技术暑期研讨班
Topic: Multilingual Spoken Dialog Systems
Speaker: Helen MENG,
Co-Director, Microsoft-CUHK Joint Laboratory on Human-centric
Computing and Interface Technologies
Professor, Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Abstract:
Multilingual spoken language systems present a human-centric modality for humancomputer interaction that resembles human-human interaction. This talk will present
an overview of such spoken language systems and their component technologies.
Theoretical grounding includes acoustic-phonetics in conversational speech, linguistic
features of spoken (natural) language, speech signal processing and pattern
recognition. Component technologies include speech recognition, natural language
understanding, conversational dialog modeling, natural language generation and textto-speech synthesis. These components are then integrated with various software
architectures to facilitate spoken language interactions between human and computer.
Background information:
This event was chaired by Professor Ming ZHOU of MSRA and
Professor Xuan WANG of HIT. There were a total of 9 lectures covering many
aspects of Internet information processing, to help new students select their research
topics and conduct deep research.