Master in Innovation and Research in Informatics (MIRI)

Statistical Processing of Natural Language

Alicia Ageno ageno /at /cs /upc /edu
Office: Omega-215, Campus Nord UPC
Lluís Padró, padro /at /cs /upc /edu
Office: Omega-320, Campus Nord UPC
Horacio Rodríguez, (coordinator), horacio /at /cs /upc /edu
Office: Omega-316, Campus Nord UPC
Jordi Turmo, turmo /at /cs /upc /edu
Office: Omega-321, Campus Nord UPC

Date	Topic	Instructor
16 September 2016	Introduction to Statistical Natural Language Processing Session slides Introductory Exercises	Horacio Rodríguez
23 September 2016	Language Models Session slides (1) Session slides (2) Exercise Zipf's Exercise Entropy Data for the exercises	Horacio Rodríguez
30 September 2016	Finite State Methods Session slides Exercise FSA material for Homework on FSA	Horacio Rodríguez
7 October 2016	Model Estimation (1): Maximum Likelihood Session slides Exercise smoothing	Lluís Padró
14 October 2016	Model Estimation (2): Maximum Entropy ME Exercise Data for ME exercises Models for ME exercises Paired t-test console history classifier.py	Lluís Padró
21 October 2016	Hidden Markov Models Session slides Exercises Expectation Maximization example	Lluís Padró
28 October 2016	Log-Linear Models & Sequence Tagging (1) Session slides Exercise: NEC features	Lluís Padró
4 November 2016	Change in classes scheduling (Tuesday schedule)
11 November 2016	Sequence Tagging (2) Exercise: NER features	Lluís Padró
18 November 2016	Bootstrapping Methods Session slides Bootstrapping homework	Jordi Turmo
25 Nobember 2016	Coreference Resolution Session slides Exercises	Jordi Turmo
2 December 2016	Parsing (1) Session slides Parsing Exercises	Alicia Ageno
9 December 2016	Parsing (2) Session slides	Alicia Ageno
16 December 2016	Parsing (3) Session slides	Alicia Ageno
13 January 2017	Final exam Room A6206, 11h-14h

Alexander Clark, Chris Fox, Shalom Lappin (eds.), The Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics, John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
R. Dale, H. Moisl, H.Somers (ed.), Handbook of Natural Language Processing. Marcel Dekker, New York, 2000.
Nitin Indurkhya, Fred J. Damerau, Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition. Chapman & Hall/CRC Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition, 2010.
D. Jurafsky, James H. Martin, Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., 2000. (a second edition of this book has been published in 2008 with quite a few changes)
C. Manning, H. Schütze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing. MIT Press Cambridge, Mass., 1999.
R. Mitkov (ed.), The Oxford handbook of Computational Linguistics. Oxford University Press, 2004.

Michael Collins,
Head-Driven Statistical Models for Natural Language Parsing,
Computational Linguistics, Volume 29, Number 4, 2003