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CS224N - Natural Language Processing

CS224N: Natural Language Processing (Stanford Univ.). Instructor: Professor Christopher D. Manning. This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts and ideas in natural language processing (NLP), and to get them up to speed with current research in the area. It develops an in-depth understanding of both the algorithms available for the processing of linguistic information and the underlying computational properties of natural languages. Wordlevel, syntactic, and semantic processing from both a linguistic and an algorithmic perspective are considered. The focus is on modern quantitative techniques in NLP: using large corpora, statistical models for acquisition, disambiguation, and parsing. Also, it examines and constructs representative systems. (from see.stanford.edu)

Lecture 01 - Course Introduction, Why NLP Is Difficult?, Machine Translation
Lecture 02 - Questions That Linguistics Should Answer, Probabilistic Language Models, Smoothing
Lecture 03 - Smoothing, Kneser-Ney Smoothing, Practical Considerations
Lecture 04 - Review Statistical MT, Model 1, The Em Algorithm
Lecture 05 - IBM Models, MT Evaluation, Bleu Evaluation Metric
Lecture 06 - Syntax-Based Model, Information Extraction & Named Entity Recognition
Lecture 07 - Naive Bayes Classifier, Joint vs. Conditional Models, Feature-Based Classifiers
Lecture 08 - Details of Maxent Model, Maxent Examples
Lecture 09 - MEMM (Maximum Entropy Markov Model), HMM Pos Tagging Models
Lecture 10 - Statistical Natural Language Parsing
Lecture 11 - Polynomial Time Parsing of PCFGs (Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars)
Lecture 12 - Semantic Role Labeling
Lecture 13 - Lexicalized Parsing
Lecture 14 - Parsing as Search, Agenda-Based Parsing, Dependency Parsing
Lecture 15 - Why Study Computational Semantics?
Lecture 16 - An Introduction to Formal Computational Semantics
Lecture 17 - Lexical Semantics, Lexical Information and NL Applications
Lecture 18 - Question Answering Systems and Textual Inference

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CS224N - Natural Language Processing
Instructors: Professor Christopher D. Manning. Handouts. Assignments. Exams. This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts and ideas in natural language processing (NLP).