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Natural Language and the Computer Representation of Knowledge
Spring 2003
Topics
- Introduction, Organization, Laboratories, Course Overview: Introduction to NLP, Main Issues, fsa’s
- Linguistics: Phonology and Morphology I, 2-Level Morphology, Kimmo
- Linguistics: Phonology and Morphology II
- HMM Tagging, Statistical Transformation Rule-Based Tagging, Precision, Recall, Accuracy
- Part of Speech Tagging: The Brill Tagger
- Introduction to Parsing, Linguistics: Syntax & Parsing
- Shift-Reduce Parsers in Detail, Earley’s Algorithm and Chart Parsing
- Context-Free Parsing and Beyond: Efficiency Issues, Feature-Based Parsing, NL System Design
- Parsing With an Integrated Lexicon - The Question of Syntactic Features
- Semantic Interpretation I: Compositionality
- Semantic Interpretation II: Compositionality and Quantifiers
- Semantics III: Lexical Semantics
- Semantics IV: Lexical Semantics
- Semantics V: Constraint-Based Systems
- Machine Translation I
- Machine Translation II
- Machine Translation III
- Machine Translation IV
- Language Learning I
- Language Learning II
- Computational Models of Language Change, I
- Computational Models of Language Change and The Origins of Language
Readings
- The page numbers below refer to readings in the course textbook: Jurafsky, and Martin. Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. ISBN: 0130950696.
- LEC #: 3 · TOPICS: Linguistics: Phonology and Morphology II · READINGS: pp. 287-321
- TOPICS: No lecture · READINGS: pp. 235-284
- LEC #: 5 · TOPICS: Part of Speech Tagging: The Brill Tagger · READINGS: pp. 357-394
- LEC #: 8 · TOPICS: Context-Free Parsing and Beyond: Efficiency Issues, Feature-Based Parsing, NL System Design · READINGS: pp. 477-498
- LEC #: 14 · TOPICS: Semantics IV: Lexical Semantics · READINGS: pp. 501-544
- LEC #: 15 · TOPICS: Semantics V: Constraint-Based Systems · READINGS: pp. 545-588
- LEC #: 19 · TOPICS: Machine Translation III · READINGS: pp. 631-666
- LEC #: 20 · TOPICS: Machine Translation IV · READINGS: pp. 799-830
- Recommended and Reference (on Library Reserve)
- Barton, E., Berwick, R., and Ristad, E. Computational Complexity and Natural Language : The MIT Press. 1987. ISBN 0-26-02266-4.
- Allen, J. Natural Language Understanding . The Benajmins/Cummings Publishing Company Inc. 1994. ISBN 0-8053-0334-0.
- Brady, J., and Berwick, R. Computational Models of Discourse . The MIT Press, 1983. ISBN-0-262-02183-8.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.