Unit I
Spoken Language Input : Speech Recognition - Signal Representation - Robust Speech Recognition - HMM Methods in Speech Recognition - Language Representation - Speaker Recognition - Spoken Language Understanding - Written Language Input : Document Image Analysis - OCR: Print - OCR: Handwriting - Handwriting as Computer Interface - Handwriting Analysis.

Unit II
Language Analysis and Understanding : Sub-Sentential Processing - Grammar Formalisms - Lexicons for Constraint-Based Grammars - Semantics - Sentence Modeling and Parsing - Robust Parsing - Language Generation : Syntactic Generation - Deep Generation.

Unit III
Spoken Output Technologies : Synthetic Speech Generation - Text Interpretation for TtS Synthesis - Spoken Language Generation - Discourse and Dialogue : Discourse Modeling Dialogue Modeling - Spoken Language Dialogue.

Unit IV
Document Processing : Document Retrieval - Text Interpretation: Extracting Information - Summarization - Computer Assistance in Text Creation and Editing - Controlled Languages in Industry – Multilinguality : Machine Translation: The Disappointing Past and Present - (Human-Aided) Machine Translation: A Better Future? - Machine-aided Human Translation - Multilingual Information Retrieval - Multilingual Speech Processing - Automatic Language Identification.

Unit V
Multimodality : Representations of Space and Time - Text and Images - Modality Integration: Speech and Gesture - Modality Integration: Facial Movement & Speech Recognition - Modality Integration: Facial Movement & Speech Synthesis - Transmission and Storage : Speech Coding - Speech Enhancement.

Text Book:

1. "Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology" - Joseph Mariani Hans Uszkoreit,Annie Zaenen,Victor Zue - Cambridge University Press, 1998 – ISBN : 0521592771.

.References Book:
1. “Human Language Technology Workshop” – Arpa - Morgan Cue Publications-1994 - ISBN: 1558603573