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Special Topics in Computing DXXVII: Introduction to Natural Language Processing

Professor: Aline Villavicencio
Prerequisites: –
Hours: 60 hs
Credits: 4
Semesters: Second semester
Undergraduate Enrollment: The enrollment must be made as Special Student
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SUMMARY

Overview of Languages (Formal Natural x Natural). Introduction to applications using Natural Language Processing (speech recognition and synthesis, data mining, natural language interfaces, …). Characteristics of different language levels of information: morphological, lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic. Computing models applied to these levels, such as labels morpho-syntactic, and semantic parsers.

OBJECTIVES

The purpose of this course is to provide students an introduction to the area of Natural Language Processing, applying computational techniques to solve problems related to language technology.

PROGRAM

• Introduction to NLP
• Seminars
• Phonology and Morphology
• Syntax
• Semantics
• Pragmatic
• Advanced Topics in NLP

EVALUATION

Students will be evaluated by their performance on seminars to presented during the course.
The assignment of grades will be as follows:

A: average in the range [9.0, 10.0];
B: average in the interval [7.5, 9.0);
C: average in the range [6.0, 7.5);
D: average less than 6.0.
FF: lack of frequency.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. James Allen. Natural Language Understanding. Addison Wesley, 1994.
2. A. Bonfante, M. G. Nunes. Um parser probabilístico para o português brasileiro: um estudo exploratório. I Worshop on Probabiblistic Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence (PRAI).Atibaia, SP, 20 a 22 Novembro 2000.
3. Marcirio S. Chaves, Vera L. Strube de Lima. Similaridade entre estruturas ontológicas. 1o. Workshop em Tecnologia da Informação e da Linguagem Humana, São Carlos, 2003.
4. J. Coelho, S. Abreu, R. Vieira. Estudo de Corpus para Classificação de Expressões Anafóricas da Língua Portuguesa. TIL – Workshop de Tecnologias da Informação e Linguagem Humana. Anais do XXV Congresso da SBC, São Leopoldo, 2005.
5. Ann Copestake. Implementing Typed Feature Structure Grammars. CSLI Publications, 2001.
6. Gerald Gazdar, Chris Mellish. Natural Language Processing in Prolog: An Introduction to Computational Linguistics. Addison-Wesley, 1989.
7. Daniel Jurafsky, James H. Martin. Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition. Prentice-Hall, 2000.
8. Christopher D. Manning, Hinrich Schütze. Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing. The MIT Press, 1999.
9. Gabriel de Ávila Othero e Sérgio de Moura Menuzzi. Lingüística computacional: teoria & prática,.