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CS 537 Natural Language Processing is a 3 credit course that introduces students to human languages and natural language processing. It covers topics like text representation, linguistics resources, morphology, part-of-speech tagging, parsing, semantics, word sense disambiguation, discourse, and applications of NLP like information retrieval and machine translation. The syllabus outlines the phases and applications of natural language processing and the resources and tools used, including regular expressions, finite state automata, Hidden Markov Models, and conditional random fields.

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Syl CS537 NLP CBCT

CS 537 Natural Language Processing is a 3 credit course that introduces students to human languages and natural language processing. It covers topics like text representation, linguistics resources, morphology, part-of-speech tagging, parsing, semantics, word sense disambiguation, discourse, and applications of NLP like information retrieval and machine translation. The syllabus outlines the phases and applications of natural language processing and the resources and tools used, including regular expressions, finite state automata, Hidden Markov Models, and conditional random fields.

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CS 537 Natural Language Processing

Syllabus

L-T-P: 3-0-0
Credits 3

Introduction- Human languages, models, ambiguity, processing paradigms; Phases in natural


language processing, applications.
Text representation in computers, encoding schemes.
Linguistics resources- Introduction to corpus, elements in balanced corpus, TreeBank, PropBank,
WordNet, VerbNet etc. Resource management with XML, Management of linguistic data with
the help of GATE, NLTK.
Regular expressions, Finite State Automata, word recognition, lexicon.
Morphology, acquisition models, Finite State Transducer.
N-grams, smoothing, entropy, HMM, ME, SVM, CRF.
Part of Speech tagging- Stochastic POS tagging, HMM, Transformation based tagging (TBL),
Handling of unknown words, named entities, multi word expressions.
A survey on natural language grammars, lexeme, phonemes, phrases and idioms, word order,
agreement, tense, aspect and mood and agreement, Context Free Grammar, spoken language
syntax.
Parsing- Unification, probabilistic parsing, TreeBank.
Semantics- Meaning representation, semantic analysis, lexical semantics, WordNet
Word Sense Disambiguation- Selectional restriction, machine learning approaches, dictionary based
approaches.
Discourse- Reference resolution, constraints on co-reference, algorithm for pronoun resolution, text
coherence, discourse structure.
Applications of NLP- Spell-checking, Summarization
Information Retrieval- Vector space model, term weighting, homonymy, polysemy, synonymy,
improving user queries.
Machine Translation– Overview.

Textbook:
1. Daniel Jurafsky and James H Martin. Speech and Language Processing, 2e, Pearson
Education, 2009

Reference Books:
1. James A.. Natural language Understanding 2e, Pearson Education, 1994
2. Bharati A., Sangal R., Chaitanya V.. Natural language processing: a Paninian perspective,
PHI, 2000
3. Siddiqui T., Tiwary U. S.. Natural language processing and Information retrieval, OUP,
2008

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