Natural Language Processing

Spring 2004
Fridays, 9:10 ~12:00 AM
Instructor:
Berlin Chen

 

Topic List and Schedule
 

2/20
 
Course Overview & Introduction
Linguistic Essentials
HW-1 Write a Chinese Input System
(Due 4/2)
2/27
 
Linguistic Essentials
 
3/5
 
Mathematical Foundations, 朱惠銘
 
3/12
 
Mathematical Foundations, 朱惠銘
Part-of-Speech Tagging
 
3/19
 
Break (ICDAT 2004)
 
3/26
 
Collections, 張志豪
 
4/2

 
Part-of-Speech Tagging
Parsing with Context-Free Grammars

 
HW-2 Write a HMM Tagger
(the training phase should be included)
(Due 4/30)
 
4/9
 
Break (Talk at NCKU)
 
4/16
 
N-gram Language Modeling,  黃耀民
Parsing with Context-Free Grammars
 
4/23
 
Midterm
 
4/30
 
Word Sense Disambiguation 劉成韋
 
HW-3
(Due 5/7)
5/7
 
Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars
 
5/14
 
Text Categorization 顏永泰
 
5/21
 
Break (ICASSP 2004)
 
5/28
 
Paper Survey
 
6/4
 
Statistical Alignment and Machine Translation
 
6/11
 

 
6/18
 
FINAL
 

Textbook: 

1. D. Jurafsky and J. H. Martin, Speech and Language Processing, Prentice-Hall, 2000.
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 and Final: 40%
     2. Homework: 25%
     3. Project: 20%
     4. Attendance/Other: 15%