CS578   Natural Language Processing

Semester       :   Fall 2003
Instructor      :   Ilyas Cicekli   ( Office: EA504,    Tel: 290-1589,    Email:  ilyas@cs.bilkent.edu.tr )
Office Hours :   Tuesday 13:30-15:30
Class Hours  :   Monday 9:40-10:30,  Wednesday 10:40-12:30  (EA502)

Text Book

  1. Daniel Jurafsky, and James H. Martin, "Speech and Language Processing",  Prentice Hall,  2000.

 

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. Gerald Gazdar and Chris Mellish, "Natural Language Processing in Prolog", Addison Wesley, 1989.
  4. Fernando C.N. Pereira, and Stuart M. Shieber, "Prolog and Natural Language Analysis", CSLI Lecture Notes, 1987.
  5. Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology for a good overview of the field.

Grading

Project        :   50%

Final            :   35%

Homeworks:   15%

 

Project

Each student will do a survey in an advanced topic in NLP field, and a computational work as a project. You should read at least 2-3 major papers in that field, and prepare a professionally written paper (in the format of a conference or journal paper) for your project.  At the end of semester, you will return your paper together with the copies of the major papers that you read and you will present your project.

·        Possible Project Topics

·        Presentation Schedule

Homeworks

hw1  (Due: November 5, 2003)

hw2  (Due: December 10 2003)  hw2-samplecorpus

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Miscellaneous NLP Information

  1. Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology

 

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