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Subject Name
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Natural Language Processing
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Teacher Name
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YAMAMOTO Kazuhide
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Class
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Semester
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the second term
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Term
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The second semester
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Lecture Form
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lecture
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Unit Count
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2
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Matter of Prepare
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Note
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12DCC5
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Instructor’ room ／contact information
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Purpose and objective Goals
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Natural language is language that is used by human communication. In this course computer processing of natural language is learned. Among some communication 'tools' natural language is the largest in amount in our daily life, the most informative information source, and has the least recognizable patterns than other media such as speech and vision. In this lecture, the participants will notice several features of natural language, and learn some basic and typical algorithms for handling them by computer.
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Keywords
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language, part-of-speech tagging, parsing, semantic analysis, machine translation(MT), text summarization, information retrieval(IR), text mining
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Contents and method
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The course follows the slides of the video projecter shown in the class. The slides can be obtained by the Web page below. Some printing materials may be distributed if necessary. Although the slides are all written in English, I will speak English and/or Japanese at the class, depending on language of participants.
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Topics
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The following topics are planned.
1. natural language and its processing
2. sentence segmentation and part-of-speech tagging
3. some parsing techniques
4. semantic analysis and word sense disambiguation
5. discourse analysis
6. language resources
7. text generation
8. machine translation and spoken language translation
9. text summarization
10. text mining
Moreover, as many hot topics as possibile, related to narural language processing, are attempted to be explained during the course.
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Textbooks
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None is specified; the participants can have the handouts on the Web site.
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Reference materials
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See the Web page below for list of reference books. Some useful links to Wikipedia can also be seen in the Web page.
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Evaluation method and Assessment points
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The overall assessment will be assigned according to the result of some quizzes during the course, and the final report.
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Prerequisite / other notes
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More information can be obtained at the Web page below, such as lecture slides and supplemental explanations. Note that the next course will start at September of Year 2013.
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Reference homepage
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Reference URLs
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