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Academic unit or major
Graduate major in Artificial Intelligence
Instructor(s)
Tokunaga Takenobu  Fujii Atsushi 
Class Format
Lecture     
Media-enhanced courses
Day/Period(Room No.)
Tue1-2(W832)  Fri1-2(W832)  
Group
-
Course number
ART.T459
Credits
2
Academic year
2017
Offered quarter
3Q
Syllabus updated
2017/3/17
Lecture notes updated
-
Language used
Japanese
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Course description and aims

This course provides an introduction to the field of natural language processing (NLP), introducing fundamental concepts and techniques for processing human languages by computers. The course covers a linguistic background necessary for NLP, morphological analysis, syntactic analysis, semantic analysis, discourse analysis and text generation. The course also includes a part of corpus linguistics.

Linguistic competence is believed to be the most prominent human nature that distinguishes human from other animals. The aim of this course is to provide students with the ability to utilise fundamental NLP techniques to build language-related application systems, such as information extraction, question answering and dialogue systems.

Student learning outcomes

At the end of the course students should be able to
(1) explain basic concepts of linguistics;
(2) explain basic concepts of natural language processing;
(3) build sample application programs based on the above concepts.

Keywords

computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, morphological analysis, syntactic analysis, semantic analysis, discourse analysis, language resources, text generation.

Competencies that will be developed

✔ Specialist skills Intercultural skills Communication skills Critical thinking skills Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

Students must prepare the specified section in the textbook. Each class starts with a quiz on the specified section, followed by discussion on the answers to the quiz and the contents of the specified section.

Course schedule/Required learning

  Course schedule Required learning
Class 1 An overview of language processing Specified in the class.
Class 2 Corpus processing tool
Class 3 Counting words
Class 4 Words, parts of speech, and morphology
Class 5 Part-of-speech tagging
Class 6 Phrase-structure grammars
Class 7 Partial parsing
Class 8 Syntactic formalism
Class 9 Phrase-structure parsing
Class 10 Dependency parsing
Class 11 Semantics and predicate logic
Class 12 Lexical semantics
Class 13 Discourse analysis
Class 14 Dialogue
Class 15 Wrap up

Textbook(s)

Pierre M. Nugues, Language Processing with Perl and Prolog, 2nd ed. Springer (2014).
(http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-642-41464-0.pdf)

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Jurafsky, D. & Martine, J. H.: Speech and Language Processing (2nd ed.), Prentice Hall (2009).
Allen, J.: Natural Language Processing 2nd ed., Benjamin (1994).

Assessment criteria and methods

Contribution to the class discussion (10%)
Quiz (30%)
Final exam (60%)

Related courses

  • ART.T548 ： Advanced Artificial Intelligence

Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)

Ability of programming.

Other

None.

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