8 CS 4.3-NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING |
Units: I |
Introduction to Natural Language Understanding: The study of Language, Applications of NLP, Evaluating Language
Understanding Systems, Different levels of Language Analysis, Representations and Understanding, Organization of Natural
language Understanding Systems, Linguistic Background: An outline of English syntax.
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Units: II |
Introduction to semantics and knowledge representation, Some applications like machine translation, database interface. |
Units: III |
Grammars and Parsing: Grammars and sentence Structure, Top-Down and Bottom-Up Parsers, Transition Network
Grammars, Top-Down Chart Parsing. Feature Systems and Augmented Grammars: Basic Feature system for English,
Morphological Analysis and the Lexicon, Parsing with Features, Augmented Transition Networks.
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Units: IV |
Grammars for Natural Language: Auxiliary Verbs and Verb Phrases, Movement Phenomenon in Language, Handling
questions in Context-Free Grammars. Human preferences in Parsing, Encoding uncertainty, Deterministic Parser.
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Units: V |
Ambiguity Resolution: Statistical Methods, Probabilistic Language Processing, Estimating Probabilities, Part-of- Speech
tagging, Obtaining Lexical Probabilities, Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars, Best First Parsing. Semantics and Logical
Form, Word senses and Ambiguity, Encoding Ambiguity in Logical Form
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