1. Language communication 2011-07-03
2012 spring semester, Tue6 elective course for IMCTS graduate students IMC-101

2. write full name furigana email address pass sheet make roster
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3. informed consent
your speech and actions may be recorded, archived and, without revealing your identity, used and made public for research and education purposes
if you disagree, I will neither record nor retaliate
学生の言動を録音し、保存し、匿名としたうえで研究と教育のために利用したり公開する可能性がある
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4. instructor Goh Kawai (河合 剛 かわい ごう) born in Tokyo, raised in Toronto
came to Sapporo in
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5. goh’s academic background
Univ of Tokyo
BA linguistics, 1984
ICU
MA educational technology, 1986
Stanford Univ
linguistics (dropout)
PhD information and communication engineering, 1999
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6. goh’s vocational background
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Palo Alto, CA
SRI International Menlo Park, CA
University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan
University of California Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA
Oregon Graduate Institute Beaverton, OR
Universiteit Antwerpen Antwerpen, België
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7. goh’s interests
research
spoken and written language processing technology applied to language learning
personal interests
flying, kayaking, cycling, snowshoeing, amateur radio, sado (way of tea)
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8. 平野宏子 東京大学 博士(科学) 吉林華僑外国語学院 歌代崇史 東京工業大学 博士(工学) 北海学園大学 三角美樹 札幌開成高校
alumni
平野宏子 東京大学　博士(科学) 吉林華僑外国語学院
歌代崇史 東京工業大学　博士(工学) 北海学園大学
三角美樹 札幌開成高校
壽崎尚美 教材制作
片桐徳昭 札幌開成高校、博士進学
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9. pronunciation lunch
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10. instructor-led course
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11. english online
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12. online language courses
lots of
students (2665)
study hours (24x7)
assignments (45 hours worth)
we need
technology that scales
automatic grading tools
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13. speech recognition
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14. Praat
built by researchers and engineers in linguistics and speech processing
updated frequently
good support base
Windows, Mac, Linux
free
PRAAT
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15. display waveforms, spectrograms, pitch and more
what can Praat do?
record and play speech
display waveforms, spectrograms, pitch and more
label speech at various levels
phone, mora, syllable, word, phrase and utterance levels
SIL fonts
Praat in action
SIL
PRAAT
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16. sound sources show praat vowels consonants pure tones (sinusoids)
demo
view praat
time waveform
spectogram
spectral slice
sound sources show praat
vowels
consonants
pure tones (sinusoids)
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17. natural language processing
machines grade essays
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18. slideshow
if there's time
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19. mailto:grad@kawai.com http://goh.kawai.com/ thanks, and good luck
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