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Fall 2024 (Sep3-Dec4)
Faculty of Computer Science
Dalhousie University

CSCI 4152/6509 — Natural Language Processing

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Course: CSCI 4152 Natural Language Processing
CSCI 6509 Advanced Topics in Natural Language Processing
Term:Fall 2024
Instructor: Vlado Keselj, or
Lectures:
Mondays and Wednesdays 16:05-17:25 Carleton Tupper Bldg Theatre C
TAs:
Tymon Wranik-Lohrenz,10am lab
Sigma Jahan,4pm lab
Labs:
Lab 4152: Fri 10:05-11:25, No labs first week; Mona Campbell Building 1108;
Lab 6509 B01: Fri 10:05-11:25, No labs first week; Mona Campbell Building 1108;
Lab 6509 B02: Fri 16:05-17:25, No labs first week; Goldberg CS Building 134;
Brightspace: https://dal.brightspace.com/d2l/home/344301 – the course Brightspace site is accessible to registered students.

Course Description

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is an area of Computer Science, and sub-area of Artificial Intelligence, concerned with the problem of automatically processing natural languages in written and spoken form. Processing typically denotes analyzing or generating language, and natural languages include languages such as English, French, or other. This course introduces fundamental concepts and principles used in NLP with emphasis on two approaches to NLP: statistical and unification-based. Some applications are discussed, such as the problems of text classification, information extraction, and question answering.

Links to calendar descriptions: CSCI 4152, and CSCI 6509.

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NLP Research Links

References

Required Textbook:
  1. Speech and Language Processing by Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin, edition 2, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2013, ISBN 978-0-13-187321-6.. Draft of Edition 3 available at: https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/  http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~martin/slp.html
Recommended Reading:
  1. Introduction to Natural Language Processing by Jacob Eisenstein, The MIT Press, 2019, ISBN 978-0-262-04284-0.. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-natural-language-processing
  2. Learning Perl, 6th Edition by Randal L. Schwartz, brian d foy, Tom Phoenix, edition 6th Edition, O'Reilly, 2011.. Available on-line from Dalhousie:  http://proquestcombo.safaribooksonline.com/9781449311063?uicode=dalhousie
  3. Natural Language Processing with Python by Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, Edward Loper, edition 1st edition, O'Reilly, 2009, ISBN 978-0-596-51649-9.. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516499/
Related Books (additional reading):
  1. Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing by Christopher Manning and Hinrich Schuetze, The MIT Press, 1999, ISBN 0-262-13360-1.. http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/fsnlp/
  2. Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction by Ivan A. Sag and Thomas Wasow, CSLI Publications, Stanford, 1999, ISBN 0-521-58388-8.
  3. Modern Information Retrieval by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Addison Wesley, 1999, ISBN 020139829X.
  4. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Chrisopher M. Bishop, Springer, 2006, ISBN 0-38-731073-8.
  5. Statistical Language Learning by Eugene Charniak, The MIT Press, 1993.
  6. Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition by Frederick Jelinek, The MIT Press, 1997.
  7. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, edition 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, 2003, ISBN 0-13-790395-2.. http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/
Maintained by: Vlado Keselj, last update: 25-Sep-2024