Course details

Natural Language Processing

ZPD Acad. year 2010/2011 Winter semester

Current academic year

Guarantor

Smrž Pavel, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (DCGM)

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Completion

Examination

Time span

  • 39 hrs lectures

Department

Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia (UPGM)

Study literature

  • Hajičová, E., Panevová, J., Sgall, P., Úvod do teoretické a počítačové lingvistiky, sv. I., Teoretická lingvistika, Praha: Karolinum, 2002, ISBN 8024604701.
  • Mařík,V., Štěpánková,O., Lažanský, J. a kol.: Umělá inteligence (4), ACADEMIA Praha, 2003, ISBN 80-200-1044-0.

Fundamental literature

  • Allen, J., Natural language understanding. 2nd ed. Redwood City : Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, 1995. ISBN 0-8053-0334-0.
  • Manning, C. D., Schütze, H., Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, MIT Press, 1999, ISBN 0-262-13360-1.

Syllabus of lectures

  1. Advanced methods of  text categorization, document similarity
  2. Morphological analysis, inflective and derivational morphology, trie structure for dictionaries
  3. Methods of syntactic analysis for language modeling
  4. Probabilistic context-free analysis, automatic alignment, machine translation
  5. Lexical semantics, dictionaries vs. encyclopedias, compositionality
  6. The Semantic Web technologies, ontologies, OWL

Course inclusion in study plans

  • Programme VTI-DR-4, field DVI4, any year of study, Elective
  • Programme VTI-DR-4, field DVI4, any year of study, Elective
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