[This is extracted from the Spring 2022 version on Canvas, so some links/formatting may be broken.] This week, we’re digging deeper into spell checking and language models. We’ll focus on simple models first, like n-grams, which we talked about at the end of class. That will require us to spend a little time talking about …
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Ling 354: Week 5
[This is extracted from the Spring 2022 version on Canvas, so some links/formatting may be broken.] This week, we’re building on last week’s core ideas about speech recognition. We’ll start by discussing biases in speech recognition and how to overcome them, based on the Scientific American article as well as two others I’m posting here on machine …
Ling 354: Week 4
[This is extracted from the Spring 2022 version on Canvas, so some links/formatting may be broken.] This week, we’re turning to speech recognition. How do Alexa, Siri, Google, and other voice-activated assistants work? What causes difficulties for them, and how can we overcome them? For that matter, how does human speech recognition work? Why do …
Ling 354: Week 3
[This is extracted from the Spring 2022 version on Canvas, so some links/formatting may be broken.] In our Week 3 meeting, we’ll first wrap up emoji, including digging a bit deeper into how deeply we share our understanding of emoji. We’ll then turn to the QWERTY effect, research that argues that the ways we type …