C SC 620 Advanced Topics in Natural Language ProcessingNatural Language Processing (NLP)Scope of ClassAdministriviaSlide 5Start with…C SC 620Advanced Topics in Natural Language ProcessingSandiway FongNatural Language Processing (NLP)•Very broad, interdisciplinary field:–At the intersection of linguistics, computer science, cognitive science …•Areas include:–Parsing methods and grammar formalisms–Machine translation–Large-scale resources: corpora, dictionaries, ontologies–Information retrieval, classification …–Document processing and summarization–etc.Scope of Class •Another computational linguistics seminar class this semester–LING 696G–Time: Mondays 3-5:30 pmCognitiveScienceLinguisticTheoryComputerScienceC SC 620LING 696GAdministrivia•Email: [email protected]•Course Homepage:–Notes, announcements, papers, readings–http://linguistics.arizona.edu/~sandiway/csc620 •not yet set up …•Requirements:–Advanced class: seminar format–Summarize and present one paper in class for discussion–Term project or paperAdministrivia•Email me:–Name–Background–Why are you interested in NLP?–Specific topics you’d like to see covered?–Preferences for class time •Available times•One class per week or two?Start with…•WordNet: –a large-scale ontology-based network for nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs–Freely available –http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/–Download WordNet to your computer–Get the 5 core papers •we’ll begin looking at them next
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