ITCS 6010: NATURAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS
Instructor:   Dale-Marie Wilson, Ph.D.  
  Office: 423B Woodward Hall 
  Office Phone: (704) 687-7988
  Email: dwilso1@uncc.edu
Office Hours: TTR 3pm - 4pm, others by appointment. 
Place and Time: 441 Woodward Hall, 5:00pm - 6:15pm, TTR
Description: This course is a special topics course on natural language systems. The course will cover the design, implementation, testing and evaluation of spoken language systems.
Text (Recommended) : Voice User Interface Design by Michael H. Cohen, James P. Giangola, Jennifer Balogh;  Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; (February 1, 2004);  ISBN: 0321185765

Wired For Speech: How Voice Activates and Advances the Human-Computer Relationship by Clifford Nass & Scott Brave; MIT Press, ISBN: 0262140926

Designing Effective Speech Interfaces by S. Weinschenk & D.T. Barker; J. W. Wiley 2000.

  VoiceXML: Introduction to Developing Speech Applications, by James Larson, 2002.

The VoiceXML Guide
Grading:

Assignments:80% (10 - 20 assignments)

Paper:20%


Grading Scale:
A      100 - 90
B        89 - 80
C        79 - 70
D        69 - 60
F        59 -   0

 
Written in Stone Policy: When grades are emailed to you for assignments, you have 7 days to meet with me for grade changes.  After 7 days, the grades are written in stone and can't be changed after that point.

Policies: Class participation is strongly encouraged.  You are individually responsible for the assignments.  You are not allowed to copy each others work.  If you are having difficulties, see me during office hours or schedule a meeting with me via email.
Programs: We will be using the BeVocal Cafe, Haptek Plugin, JavaScript and other packages.
Disabilities: Students who need accommodations are asked to arrange a meeting during office hours the first week of classes, or as soon as possible if accommodations are needed immediately. If you have a conflict with my office hours, an alternate time can be arranged. To set up this meeting, please contact me by E-mail.  Bring a copy of your official Letter of Accommodation to the meeting. If you do not have the accommodation letter but need accommodations, make an appointment with The Office of Disability Services, 230 Fretwell, 687-4355 (V/TT).

 
 
  Week:  Topic:
1 Course introduction to Auditory User Interfaces
2 Laws of Interface Design

VUI Design Guidelines

Assignment #1 
3 VUI Evaluation (PARADISE, Method Effectiveness)

Assignment #2
4 Speech Grammars 

Assignment #3
5 More Speech Grammars

 
6 VoiceXML Introduction
-Menus, Forms
-Prompts, Grammars I

Assignment #4
7 More VoiceXML
-Variables
-Events
-Scripting & Cookies
-Grammars II
-Server Side Processing CGI

Assignment #5
8 More VoiceXML
-Server Side Processing CGI
-Grammars III (Complex Grammars)
-Subdialogs (modularization)

Assignment #6
9 Spring Break
10 More VoiceXML
-Subdialogs (modularization)
-Post call processing
-Voice Authentication

Assignment #7
11 More VoiceXML

Assignment #8
12 More VoiceXML

Assignment #9  
13
 Introduction to Multimodal User Interfaces

X+V Introduction


Assignment #10
14
 More X+V

Assignment #11
15
 More X+V

Assignment #12
16 Java Speech API

Assignment #13