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Natural Language Processing

General Information

Instructor

      Dr. Ahmad Abdollah zadeh
      ahmad@ce.aut.ac.ir

Teaching Assistant

Shahram Kalantari
shahramk@aut.ac.ir

Course Email

Shahramk@aut.ac.ir

Class Schedule

1-Introduction to Natural Language Processing
    Introduction to AI
    Turing Test
    Goal of NLP
    Language Types
    NLP History
    NLP Components
    NLP System Architecture
    Applications of NLP

2-Knowledge Representation
    What is Knowledge?
    Knowledge Types
    Knowledge Resources
    Knowledge Representation
        First Order Logic
        Network/Structural Representation
        Procedural
        Structural
        Conceptual Graph
        Conceptual Dependency
        Frame
        Scripts
    Knowledge Related to NLP

3-Grammar
    Introduction to Grammars
    Grammar Types
    Context Free Grammar (CFG)
        Normal Forms of CFG
            Chamsky Normal Form
            Gribakh Normal Form
    Transitional Grammar ( TG )
        Deep Structure
        Surface Structure
    Two Level Grammar
    Category Grammar ( CG )
    Feature Structure Grammar ( FSG)
    Unified Based Grammar (UBG )
    Tree Adjoining Grammar ( TAG )
    Link Grammar ( LG )
    Dependency Grammar ( DG )
    Lexical Functional Grammar ( LFG )
    Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar ( GPSG )
    Head Driven Phrase Structure ( HDPSG )

4-Parsing
   Introduction to parsing
    Parse Strategies
    Top-down parsing
    Bottom-up parsing
    Transition Network Grammars
    RTN
    ATN
    Chart Parsing
    Definite Clause Grammar
    Efficient Parsing
5- Statistical Natural Language Processing