Human Language

All about theoritical linguistics. Basic of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse.
Books
An Introduction to Language (8th Edition) (2008) Rodman, Hyams, Fromkin
A Course in Phonetics (2000), by P. Ladefoged (CP)
The Acoustics of Speech Communication (1999), by J. M. Pickett (SC)
Understanding Phonology (2005), by C. Gussenhoven & H. Jacobs (UP)

Machine learning

Machine learning algorithms - Naive base classifier, perceptron, vc dimention, PAC learning, SVM, Karnel. Text categorization, question answaring.
Books
Roberto Basili and Alessandro Moschitti, Automatic Text Categorization: from Information Retrieval to Support Vector Learning.
Tom Mitchell, Machine Learning.

Speech Processing

Speech, Speech, Speech..:). Phonetics phonology, Feature extraction, Acoustic modeling, Language modeling, Decoding.

Books
Jurafsky, D. & Martin, J. H. Speech and Language Processing
Rabiner, L., Juang, B. H. (1993). Fundamentals of Speech Recognition. New Jersey, Prentice Hall
Furui, S. (2001). Digital Speech Processing, Synthesis, and Recognition, 2nd Edition, Revised and Expanded. New York, Marcel Dekker
Dutoit, T. (1997). An Introduction to Text-To-Speech Synthesis, Kluwer Academic Publishers
Quatieri, T.F. Discrete-time Speech Signal Processing
Witten, I. H. Principles of Computer Speech
Duda, Hart & Stork. Pattern Classification. Wiley & Sons, 2001.
Renato De Mori, Spoken Dialogues with Computers, Academic Press, Inc., Orlando, FL, 1997
David G. Stork, Elad Yom-Tov , Computer Manual in MATLAB to Accompany Pattern Classification, 2nd Edition, 2004.
Huang, Acero, Hon, Spoken language processing, Prentice Hall, 2001
S. Young et al., The HTK Book, Cambridge University Engineering Department, 2002
"The Speech Chain: The physics and biology of spoken speech" P.B. Denes and E.N. Pinson, 1993
“A Course in Phonetics”, P. Ladefoged, 1993
“Fundamental of Hearing”, W. A. Yost, 1994
Oppenheim Schafer, Discrete-Time Signal Processing, 1989.|
A Bit of Progress in Language Modeling, J. Goodman, Computer Speech and Language, vol. 15, n. 4, pp. 403-434, 2001.

Tools
Text to speech: Festival, Festvox, Free TTS
Automatic speech recognition: HTK, Sphinx
Language model: SRILM

Resources
http://11-751-fall-2010.is.cs.cmu.edu/home/schedule
http://asr.cs.cmu.edu/spring2011/

Signal Processing

Resources
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ee791/
http://cronos.rutgers.edu/~lrr/
http://www.lsv.uni-saarland.de/e_dsp_ss10.htm
MACHINE LEARNING FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bhiksha/courses/mlsp.fall2010/

Text Processing - Basic

All about FSA-RE, POS tagging, parsing, chunking, association measure, semantic space, topic model, semantic relatedness using lexical resources, latent semantic analysis, Word sense disambiguation. State of art technology - singular value decomposition, principle component analysis.

Books
Jurafsky, D. & Martin, J. H. Speech and Language Processing
Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, Christopher D. Manning Hinrich Schütze, Jun 1999 ISBN 0262133601 620 pp.
James Allen, Natural Language Understanding, Second Edition

Additional Books
Ritchie, Russell, Black, and Pulman: Computational Morphology
Manning and Schuetze, Foundations of Statistical NLP
Rich and Knight, Artificial Intelligence
Gazdar and Mellish, Natural Language Processing in Lisp
Terry Winograd, Language as a Cognitive Process, Vol. 1 - Syntax
Aho, Sethi, and Ullman, Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
Cormen, Leiserson, and Rivest, Introduction to Algorithms
Barr, A. and Feigenbaum, E. (eds.), 1981, The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 1
Thomas A. Sudkamp: Languages and Machines, 2nd Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1997.

Resources
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/cmt-55/lti/Courses/711/www/
http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/fsnlp/index.html#CoursesUsing

Text Processing II - Advance

In depth knowledge on information extraction technology - Named Entity Recognition, Anaphora Resolution, Reference Resolution, Relation extraction. In addition, question answaring, textual entailment and ontology population.

Books
Jurafsky, D. & Martin, J. H. Speech and Language Processing
Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, Christopher D. Manning Hinrich Schütze, Jun 1999 ISBN 0262133601 620 pp.

Tools
Named Entity Recognition: Yamcha, CRF++, SVM-HMM
Anaphora Resolution: BERT
Textual Entailment: Edits
Relation Extraction: jSRE

Machine translation

Statistical machine translation technology. IBM alignment model, language model, decoder.

Books
Statistical Machine Translation, Philipp Koehn, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

Tools
MT: Moses
Language model: SRILM, IRSTLM

Resources:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/cmt-55/lti/Courses/731/www/Spring-11/ClassSchedule2011.htm

Spoken Dialog Systems

All about state of art Spoken dialogue technologies. Knowladge about Regular expression, FSA, FST, spoken language understanding, dialogue manager, language generation and evaluation. Also needs to know dialogue models, conversational linguistics and confidence measures. Additionally, knowladge about ASR, TTS and related grammar SSML, SRGS, voiceXML.

Books
Practical Spoken Dialog Systems (Text, Speech and Language Technology)
Ed. by G. Tur and R. De Mori, Spoken Language Understanding: Systems for Extracting Semantic Information from Speech, Wiley, 2011.
D. Jurafsky and J. Martin, Speech and Language Processing.

Tools
AT&T fsm, gsm toolkit

Resources
SDS systems: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dbohus/SDS/index.html
http://wiki.speech.cs.cmu.edu/olympus/index.php/Olympus
http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/HLTsurvey/ch6node6.html
http://www.dialrc.org/sdc/
http://www.csee.ogi.edu/class/cse550/

Language Resources and Ontologies

All about language resources and knowladge representation system. Wordnet, multiwordnet, framenet, knowladge representation languages (Propositional Logic, FOL, Description Logic). OWL and TimeML are part of it.

Books:

Tools:
protege, CAT.

Human computer Interaction

Techniques and issues involved in promoting usable and engaging interaction design. In addition,talks about new emerging platforms for interaction

Books:
Sharp, H., Rogers, Y., & Preece, J. (2007). Interaction Design: beyond human-computer interaction. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2nd Edition
Dix, A., Finlay, J., Abowd, G. D., & Beale, R. (2004). Human- Computer Interaction (third Edition): Pearson Prentice Hall.
Benyon, D., Turner, P., & Turner, S. (2005). Designing Interactive Systems. Harlow England: Addison-Wesley.

Tools
ANVIL
ELAN

On-line resources
•http://www.sigchi.org/– ACM special interest group
•http://www.id-book.com/– companion website for Preece et al.’s book
•http://hcc.cc.gatech.edu/– web portal maintained by Georgia Tech.
• http://www.baddesigns.com/ – illustrated examples of things that are hard to use because they do not follow human factors principles

Information Retrival

Books:
Modern Information Retrieval (MIR)(errata), Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Addison-Wesley, 2000.

Additional Books
Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing (SNLP), C. Manning and H. Schutze. (1999), MIT Press.
Managing Gigabytes (2nd Ed.) Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat and Timothy C. Bell. (1999) Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, California.
Information Retrieval: Data Structure & Algorithms, Frakes, W.B. and Baeza-Yates, R.B. (1992) Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey C.J. van Rijsbergen (1979) "Information Retrieval" available on-line.
Pattern Classification and Scene Analysis. Duda & Hart. (1973) Wiley-Interscience. New York.
Linear Algebra and Its Applications (3rd Ed.) Gilbert Strang. (1988) Harcourt Brace & Company, Orlando, Florida.

Resources
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~yiming/courses/11741/
http://boston.lti.cs.cmu.edu/classes/11-741/
http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/information-retrieval-book.html
http://malt.ml.cmu.edu/mw/index.php/Syllabus_for_Information_Extraction_10-707_in_Fall_2010

Phonetics and Phonology

Articulatory, acoustic phonetics and phonology.
Books
A Course in Phonetics (2000), by P. Ladefoged (CP)
The Acoustics of Speech Communication (1999), by J. M. Pickett (SC)
Understanding Phonology (2005), by C. Gussenhoven & H. Jacobs (UP)

Linguistic resources: Morphology/Syntax

Book
Analyzing Syntax (2004) and Analyzing Grammar (2005), by Paul Kroeger

Image Processing/OCR/Pattern Recognition

OCR and image processing.

Books
Practical Computer Vision using C, J. Parker., John Wiley & Sons
Digital Image Processing by R.C. Gonzales , John Wiley
Digital Image Processing Using MATLAB, R.C. Gonzales , John Willey

General NLP

Natural Language Processing FAQs: [faq.org] [all related faqs from cmu]

Natural Language Processing [About NLP from aaai.org]

The Association of Computational Linguistics [web] [wiki]

Natural Language Processing course offered at BRAC University [spring 2006] [spring 2007]

Bangla Software/Tools

Typing software
Avro
Ekushe
...

Fonts:
http://ekushey.org/?page/otf_bangla_fonts
www.omicronlab.com/bangla-fonts.html
http://www.ecs.gov.bd/nikosh/downloads.php?cat_id=1