Computational Extraction of Social and Interactional
Meaning from Speech
Instructor(s): Dan Jurafsky and Mari Ostendorf
Description:
Computational methods for extracting social and conversational meaning, mainly from conversational speech but also from text. Topics will include automatic determination of emotions (angry, annoyed, happy), personality (extrovert, introvert), medical states (depression, intoxication), style (flirtatious, polite, funny), register (formality, audience), intention (deception), positioning, as well as the role of accommodation. Focus on extraction of cues from speech and text, with special attention to prosodic, acoustic, and repair/disfluency structure.
Prerequisites:
Familiarity with Praat, basic ability in programming (at least one or two college-level courses) using Perl, Python, Java, or Matlab.
LING7800-005
Days/Times:
Tue & Fri 3:30-5:15
Classroom: KOBL 300
Areas of Linguistics:
Computational Linguistics
Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology
Semantics, Pragmatics and Discourse
Sociolinguistics and Anthropological
Linguistics
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