B-KUL-H02B1A

Natural Language Processing

Taught by: Marie-Francine Moens

Vincent Vandeghinste

Lectures and exercises

2nd semester

4 study points

• 1968: Stanley Kubrick’s movie: 2001: a space odyssey: HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer): artificial agent who speaks and understands English

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E.g., probabilistic parsing and tagging, sentence understanding, grammar induction, word sense disambiguation, ...

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Vogel & Jurafsky ACL 2010

E.g., temporal information processing, spatial information processing, alignment algorithms, machine translation, ...

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• Prerequisites: – Knowledge of standard concepts in artificial

intelligence– Basic familiarity with logic, probability theory and

vector spaces

• Evaluation: – Open book written exam featuring a mixture of

theory and exercise questions

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