1. Minimum Classification Error (MCE) Approach in Pattern Recognition2. Minimum Bayes-Risk Methods in Automatic Speech Recognition3. A Decision Theoretic Formulation for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition4. Speech Pattern Recognition using Neural Networks5. Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition Based on Statistical Methods6. Toward Spontaneous Speech Recognition and Understanding7. Speaker Authentication8. HMMs for Language Processing Problems9. Statistical Language Models With Embedded Latent Semantic Knowledge10. Semantic Information Processing of Spoken Language – How May IHelp You?sm11. Machine Translation Using Statistical Modeling12. Modeling Topics for Detection and Tracking