chapter 1 Minimum Classification Error (MCE) Approach in Pattern Recognition -- chapter 2 Minimum Bayes-Risk Methods in Automatic Speech Recognition / chapter 3 A Decision Theoretic Formulation for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition -- chapter 4 Speech Pattern Recognition using Neural Networks -- chapter 5 Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition Based on Statistical Methods / chapter 6 Toward Spontaneous Speech Recognition and Understanding -- chapter 7 Speaker Authentication / chapter 8 HMMs for Language Processing Problems / chapter 9 Statistical Language Models With Embedded Latent Semantic Knowledge -- chapter 10 Semantic Information Processing of Spoken Language-How May I Help You? sm -- chapter 11 Machine Translation Using Statistical Modeling -- chapter 12 Modeling Topics for Detection and Tracking.