PA153 Natural Language Processing

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2005
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Ing. Václav Přenosil, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc.
Timetable
Wed 18:00–19:50 B204
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The subject deals with the natural language processing on the individual language levels, particularly on the morphological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic level. Attention is also paid to the theoretical foundations and tools used on the particular levels. Integrating the algorithms and tools into larger systems is explained as well.
Syllabus
  • Levels of linguistic analysis. Representation and understanding. Language data - corpora. Types of corpora. Corpus tools. Tagging corpus texts. Disambiguation. Representation of the morphological stuctures, notation, morphological algorithms. Representation of syntactic structures - formal grammars and their types. Context-free and definite-clause grammars. Parsing algorithms. Valency frames and their types. Semantic representation. Lexical meanings (words and collocations), machine readable dictionaries, lexical databases (WordNet, EuroWordNet, thesauri). Semantic analysis of sentence meaning, Normal Translation Algorithm. Pragmatics. Discourse analysis and its segmentation. Anafora and (co-)reference. Dialogue systems. Inference and knowledge representation for NL systems. Communication agents.
Literature
  • ALLEN, James. Natural language understanding. 2nd ed. Redwood City: Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, 1995, xv, 654 s. ISBN 0-8053-0334-0. info
  • CHOMSKY, Noam. Syntaktické struktury. gramatické pravidlo. Praha: Academia, 1966, 209 s. URL info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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