Components of a Natural Language Grammar / Linguistic Models for Parsing and Generation / Introduction to Semantics / Introduction to Pragmatics / Digital Signal Processing / Speech Signal Modeling and Analysis / Speech Coding Techniques and Standards / Morpho-Lexical Processing and Part-of-Speech Tagging / Syntactic Processing / Applied Semantics / Multilingual Natural Language Processing / Automatic Speech and Speaker Recognition / Speech Synthesizers and Automatic Text-to-Speech Conversion / Translation and Technology: An Overview / Applied Models for Man-Machine Dialogue / Man-Machine Voice Communication