Natural Language Processing

     Spring 2003
      Tuesdays, 9:10 ~12:00 AM
      Instructor:
Prof. Berlin Chen

 

Part of Lecture Handouts Are list Below:

  Lecture 01 Course Overview  
  Lecture 02 Mathematical Foundations  
  Lecture 03 Linguistic Essentials  
  Lecture 04 Vector Semantics and Embeddings
 
 

Lecture 05

Sequence Labeling for Parts of Speech and Name Entities
 

Lecture 06

Parsing with Context-Free Grammars
 

Lecture 07

Machine Translation
      Lecture 08 Chatbots and Dialogue Systems
      Lecture 09 Automatic Summarization  
       

Textbook: 

1. D. Jurafsky and J. H. Martin, Speech and Language Processing, Prentice-Hall, (ed. 1, 2 &3).
2. C. Manning and H. Schutze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, MIT Press, 1999.

References:
 
Books:

1. J. Allen, Natural Language Understanding, Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Co, 1995.
2. X. Huang, A. Acero, H. Hon, Spoken Language Processing, Prentice Hall, 2001.

  Papers:

 Corpora:

1. The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing

Grading:
     1. Midterm or Final: 25%
     2. Homework: 50%
     3. Presentation: 15%
     4. Attendance/Other: 10%