Computer Science 4750:
Introduction to Natural Language Processing
(Fall 2016)
http://www.cs.mun.ca/~harold/Courses/CS4750
| Instructor |
Office |
Office Hours |
Lectures |
Todd Wareham
harold@mun.ca |
EN-2034
864-4601 |
TBA
| Tue, 12:00-12:50 pm
Thu, 12:00-12:50 pm
Fri, 1:00-1:50 pm
EN-1051 |
Lecture Outline (Tentative)
- Background: Linguistics and Natural Language Processing (2 weeks)
- Mechanisms for Natural Language Processing (1 1/2 weeks)
- Implementing NLP Mechanisms (Finite-state Automata and Transducers, Context-free Grammars, Hidden Markov Models)
(4 weeks)
- Applications (e.g., Information Extraction, Spelling Correction, Machine Translation) (2 weeks)
- Student presentations (2 weeks)
The lectures and displays (and all material) delivered or provided in this course by the instructor,
including any visual or audio recording thereof, are subject to copyright
owned by the instructor.. It is prohibited to record or copy by any means, in any format,
openly or surreptitiously, in whole or in part, in the absence of express written permission from
the instructor any of the lectures or materials provided or published in any form during or from
the course.
Evaluation Scheme
| Assignments (3) |
20% |
|
| Class Exams (3) |
45% |
Friday, September 30
Friday, October 28
Friday, November 18 |
| Student Presentation |
5% |
Tuesday, November 22 --
Friday, December 2 |
| Course Project Proposal |
5% |
Thursday, November 3 |
| Course Project |
25% |
Friday, December 2 |
- There will be no supplementary assignments. Extensions for missed assignments (with appropriate
documentation) will be given at the instructor's discretion. Where such
extensions are not given, either (1) late assignments will be docked 25% or (2) marks for missed assignments
(with appropriate
documentation) will be averaged over the remaining assignments at the instructor's discretion.
- There will be no supplementary exams. Marks for missed in-class exams (with appropriate
documentation) will be averaged over the remaining exams at the instructor's discretion.
Assignment Deadlines (Tentative)
| Assignment | Given | Due |
| Assignment #1 | Sep 8 | Sep 23 |
| Assignment #2 | Sep 23 | Oct 21 |
| Assignment #3 | Oct 21 | Nov 10 |
Recommended Readings
- Bird, S., Klein, E., and Loper, E. (2009) Natural Language Processing with
Python. O'Reilly Media.
- Indurkhya, N. and Damerau, F.J. (eds.) (2010) Handbook of Natural
Language Processing (2nd Edition). Chapman and Hall / CRC.
- Jurafsky, D. and Martin, J.H. (2008) Speech and Natural Language
Processing (2nd Edition). Prentice-Hall.
- Mitkov, R. (ed.) (2005) The Oxford Handbook of Computational
Linguistics. Oxford University Press.
- Roche, E. and Schabes, Y. (eds.) (1997) Finite-state Natural Language
Processing. The MIT Press.
Created: August 8, 2016
Last Modified: September 6, 2016