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11-711: Algorithms for Natural Language Processing

Department: Language Technologies Institute (LTI)
Units: 12
Semester: Fall
Instructor: Alon Lavie (Bob Frederking)

Prerequisites: College level course on algorithms, college level programming skills.

Note that 11-711 has been approved for 1/2 CS coreunit for CSD students.

Course Description:
Algorithms for NLP is an introductory graduate-level course on the computational properties of natural languages and the fundamental algorithms for processing natural languages. The course will provide an in-depth presentation of the major algorithms used in NLP, including Lexical, Morphological, Syntactic and Semantic analysis, with the primary focus on parsing algorithms and their analysis.

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Topics to be Covered:

  • Introduction to Formal Language Theory
  • Search Techniques
  • Morphological Processing and Lexical Analysis
  • Parsing Algorithms for Context-Free Languages
  • Unification-based Grammars and Parsers
  • Natural Language Generation
  • Introduction to Semantic Processing
  • Ambiguity Resolution Methods.
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