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C SC 620 Advanced Topics in Natural Language Processing

C SC 620 Advanced Topics in Natural Language Processing. Sandiway Fong. Natural Language Processing (NLP). Very broad, interdisciplinary field: At the intersection of linguistics, computer science, cognitive science … Areas include: Parsing methods and grammar formalisms Machine translation

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C SC 620 Advanced Topics in Natural Language Processing

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  1. C SC 620Advanced Topics in Natural Language Processing Sandiway Fong

  2. Natural Language Processing (NLP) • Very broad, interdisciplinary field: • At the intersection of linguistics, computer science, cognitive science … • Areas include: • Parsing methods and grammar formalisms • Machine translation • Large-scale resources: corpora, dictionaries, ontologies • Information retrieval, classification … • Document processing and summarization • etc.

  3. Scope of Class LING 696G • Another computational linguistics seminar class this semester • LING 696G • Time: Mondays 3-5:30 pm C SC 620 Linguistic Theory Computer Science Cognitive Science

  4. Administrivia • Email: sandiway@email.arizona.edu • Course Homepage: • Notes, announcements, papers, readings • http://linguistics.arizona.edu/~sandiway/csc620 • not yet set up … • Requirements: • Advanced class: seminar format • Summarize and present one paper in class for discussion • Term project or paper

  5. Administrivia • Email me: • Name • Background • Why are you interested in NLP? • Specific topics you’d like to see covered? • Preferences for class time • Available times • One class per week or two?

  6. Start with… • WordNet: • a large-scale ontology-based network for nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs • Freely available • http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/ • Download WordNet to your computer • Get the 5 core papers • we’ll begin looking at them next time

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