Introduction to Natural Languages Processing (MAE845)

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General

School

School of Science

Academic Unit

Department of Mathematics

Level of Studies

Undergraduate

Course Code

MAE845

Semester

8

Course Title

Introduction to Natural Language Processing

Independent Teaching Activities

Lectures (Weekly Teaching Hours: 3, Credits: 6)

Course Type

Special Background

Prerequisite Courses -
Language of Instruction and Examinations

Greek

Is the Course Offered to Erasmus Students

Yes (in English)

Course Website (URL) See eCourse, the Learning Management System maintained by the University of Ioannina.

Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes

The goal of this course is the deeper understanding of Natural Language Processing (NLP). During the course a detailed examination of the following topics are done:

  • A historical retrospection of Language Technology evolution
  • The goal of NLP and its Applications
  • The NLP levels. Language Processors such as recognition machines, transducers, parsers and generators
  • The language as a rule based system. Language Understanding as process
  • NLP Resources for parsing, such as Data Base, Knowledge Base, Data Structure, Algorithms and Expert Systems
  • Fundamental parsing strategies concerning context free grammars.
  • Fundamental Methods of Computational Morphology, Computational Semantics and NLP. Implementations-Applications

After completing the course the student can handle:

  • theoretical documentation of problems
  • solving exercises
  • tracking applications

which related to NLP different topics.

General Competences
  • Handle new problems
  • Decision making
  • Implementation- Consolidation

Syllabus

  • A historical retrospection of Language Technology evolution
  • The goal of NLP and its Applications
  • The NLP levels. Language Processors such as recognition machines, transducers, parsers and generators
  • The language as a rule based system. Language Understanding as process
  • NLP Resources for parsing, such as Data Base, Knowledge Base, Data Structure, Algorithms and Expert Systems
  • Fundamental parsing strategies concerning context free grammars.
  • Fundamental Methods of Computational Morphology, Computational Semantics and NLP. Implementations-Applications

Teaching and Learning Methods - Evaluation

Delivery

Face to face

Use of Information and Communications Technology

Yes , Use of Natural Language and Mathematical Problems Processing Laboratory

Teaching Methods
Activity Semester Workload
Lectures 39
Self study 78
Exercises 33
Course total 150
Student Performance Evaluation

Final test

Attached Bibliography

See the official Eudoxus site or the local repository of Eudoxus lists per academic year, which is maintained by the Department of Mathematics. Books and other resources, not provided by Eudoxus:

  • Mitkov Ruslan, The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics. ISBN 0-19-823882
  • Jurafsky Daniel & Martin H. James, Speech and Language Processing - An Introduction to Ntural Language Proocessing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition. ISBN 0-13-095069-6
  • Allen James, Natural Language Understanding. ISBN 0-8053-0334-0,
  • Natural Language Generation ed. by Gerard Kempen. ISBN 90-247-3558-0
  • Professor's Notes.