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Course Detail

Course Name Natural Language Processing
Course Code 15CSE358
Program B. Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering
Year Taught 2019

Syllabus

Unit 1

Introduction: Words – Morphology and Finite State transducers – Computational Phonology and Pronunciation Modelling – Probabilistic models of pronunciation and spelling – Ngram Models of syntax – Hidden markov models and Speech recognition – Word classes and Part of Speech Tagging.

Unit 2

Context free Grammars for English – Parsing with Context free Grammar – Features and unification – Lexicalized and Probabilistic Parsing -Language and Complexity. Semantics: Representing meaning – Semantic analysis – Lexical semantics – Word sense disambiguation and Information retrieval.

Unit 3

Pragmatics: Discourse – Dialog and Conversational agents – Natural language generation, Statistical alignment and Machine translation: Text alignment – word alignment – statistical machine translation.

Text Books

  • Daniel and Martin J. H., “Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition”, Prentice Hall, 2009.

Resources

  • Manning C. D. and Schutze H., “Foundations of Statistical Natural Language processing“, First Edition, MIT Press, 1999
  • Allen J., “Natural Language Understanding”, Second Edition, Pearson Education, 2003.

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