IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing : Vol. 21, No. 11 - 12, November - December 2013

1. Introduction to the Special Section on Large-Scale Optimization for Audio, Speech and Language Processing 2. Optimization Algorithms and Applications for Speech and Language Processing 3. Second Order Methods for Optimizing Convex Matrix Functions and Sparse Covariance Clustering 4. A Difference of Convex Functions Approach to Large-Scale Log-Linear Model Estimation 5. Optimization Techniques to Improve Training Speed of Deep Neural Networks for Large Speech Tasks Etc