Speech and Natural Language Processing and the Web/Topics in Artificial Intelligence Programming
Course contents
- Sound : Biology of Speech Processing; Place and Manner of Articulation; Word Boundary Detection; Argmax based computations; HMM and Speech Recognition
- Words and Word Forms : Morphology fundamentals; Morphological Diversity of Indian Languages; Morphology Paradigms; Finite State Machine Based Morphology; Automatic Morphology Learning; Shallow Parsing; Named Entities; Maximum Entropy Models; Random Fields
- Structures : Theories of Parsing, Parsing Algorithms; Robust and Scalable Parsing on Noisy Text as in Web documents; Hybrid of Rule Based and Probabilistic Parsing; Scope Ambiguity and Attachment Ambiguity resolution
- Meaning : Lexical Knowledge Networks, Wordnet Theory; Indian Language Wordnets and Multilingual Dictionaries; Semantic Roles; Word Sense Disambiguation; WSD and Multilinguality; Metaphors; Coreferences
- Web 2.0 Applications : Sentiment Analysis; Text Entailment; Robust and Scalable Machine Translation; Question Answering in Multilingual Setting; Cross Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR)
Texts and References
- Allen, James, Natural Language Understanding, Second Edition, Benjamin/Cumming, 1995.
- Charniack, Eugene, Statistical Language Learning, MIT Press, 1993.
- Jurafsky, Dan and Martin, James, Speech and Language Processing, Second Edition, Prentice Hall, 2008.
- Manning, Christopher and Heinrich, Schutze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, MIT Press, 1999.
- Radford, Andrew et. al., Linguistics, An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Journals : Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Engineering, Machine Learning, Machine Translation, Artificial Intelligence
- Conferences : Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), Computational Linguistics (COLING), European ACL (EACL), Empirical Methods in NLP (EMNLP), Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Human Language Technology (HLT).
Lecture Slides
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