Master in Artificial Intelligence

Advanced Natural Language Processing

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

Date	Topic	Instructor
16 February 2017	Course Introduction Course goals and structure Statistical and Machine Learning models for NLP Prediction models and similarity models Project Presentation Project Specification Project Norms complementary material: DDI corpus	Lluís Padró Horacio Rodríguez
23 February 2017	Practical session on tools for the project. Bring your laptops. Try to have FreeLing installed beforehand.	Lluís Padró
2 March 2017	Machine Learning Review Some practical examples	Lluís Padró
9 March 2017	Parsing	Alicia Ageno
16 March 2017	Similarity	Lluís Padró
23 March 2017	Semantic Parsing (I) Project tutoring	Horacio Rodríguez
30 March 2017	Semantic Parsing (II)	Horacio Rodríguez
6 April 2017	Textual Entailment	Alicia Ageno
13 April 2017	<Easter holidays>
20 April 2017	QA over linked data Project tutoring	Horacio Rodríguez
27 April 2017	Embedding	Horacio Rodríguez
4 May 2017	Summarization Project tutoring	Horacio Rodríguez
11 May 2017	Project Presentations by Students, I
18 May 2017	Project Presentations by Students, II
25 May 2017	Final exam

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.