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9/12/2006 Copyright ? 2004 by Tianfang Yao Natural Language Processing (1) Zhao Hai 赵海Department of Computer Science and EngineeringShanghai Jiao Tong University2010-2011?zhaohai@ Outline Course Goals Course Schedule Course Requirements Overview Course Goals Introduction to the know-how of NLP, especially NLU, including research highlights, crucial technologies and application achievements; Providing a chance to train students for reading and evaluating new academic papers from an important international conference in related areas, such as ACL conference; Encouraging students to present and discuss their comments for the papers. Accomplish a practical NLP system through a course project. Course Schedule (1) Overview (2 lhs = 2 lecture hours) 1.1 Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 1.2 Different Levels of Language Analysis 1.3 Applied Approaches in NLU Systems 1.4 Applications of NLU Course Schedule (2) Lexicons and Lexical Analysis (11 lhs) 2.1 Lexicon: A Language Resource 2.2 A Lexicon for English Words: WordNet 2.3 Generative Lexicon 2.4 Finite State Models and Morphological Analysis 2.5 Collocations 2.6 Statistical Inference: n-gram Models over Sparse Data Course Schedule (3) Syntactic Processing (14 lhs) 3.1 Basic English Syntax 3.2 Grammars and Parsing 3.3 Features and Augmented Grammars 3.4 Grammars for Natural Language 3.5 Toward Efficient Parsing 3.6 Ambiguity Resolution: Statistical Methods Course Schedule (4) Semantic Interpretation (6 lhs) 4.1 Semantics and Logical Form 4.2 Linking Syntax and Semantics 4.3 Ambiguity Resolution 4.4 Other Strategies for Semantic Interpretation Course Schedule (5) Machine Learning Approaches for Natural language processing (6 lhs) 5.1 Main machine learning approaches Maximum entropy K-nearest neighbor Support vector machine Structure learning 5.2 A Case Study: train a Part-of-speech tagger from labeled corpus Course Schedule (6) Course Discussion (1 lh) 6.1 Discussi