Semester : 7th Semester, Winter 2020

Instructor: Dr. Vijay Bhaskar Semwal,

Class Room- IIIT Bhopal

Email: vsemwal@gmail.com

Class Hours Monday( 10-11 AM), Thursday( 10-11 AM), Friday( 10-11 AM)

Syllabus:

1. Introduction/Overview of NLP

2. Regular Expressions, Text Normalization, Edit Distance

3. N-gram Language Models, Spelling Correction

4. Text Classification: Naive Bayes and Logistic Regression

5. Vector Semantics

6. Morphological Processing

7. Part-of-Speech Tagging

8. Context-Free Grammars and Syntactic Parsing

9. Statistical Parsing

10. Dependency Parsing

11. Representation of Sentence Meaning

12. Semantic Analysis and Computational Semantics

13. Information Extraction

14. Machine Translation, Question Answering, Dialog Systems and Chatbots

Text Book

1. Daniel Jurafsky, and James H. Martin, "Speech and Language Processing", Second Edition, Prentice Hall, 2009.

Other References

1. James Allen, "Natural Language Understanding", Second edition, The Benjamin/Cumings Publishing Company Inc., 1995.

2. Christopher D. Manning, and Hinrich Schutze, "Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing", The MIT Press, 1999.

3. Pierre M. Nugues, “An Introduction to Language Processing with Perl and Prolog”, Springer, 2006.

4. Gerald Gazdar and Chris Mellish, "Natural Language Processing in Prolog", Addison Wesley, 1989.

5. Fernando C.N. Pereira, and Stuart M. Shieber, "Prolog and Natural Language Analysis", CSLI Lecture Notes, 1987.