Master in Artificial Intelligence (MAI)

Introduction to Human Language Technology - 2025

Instructors

Jordi Turmo (coordinator), jordi.turmo@upc.edu
Office: Omega-216, Campus Nord UPC
Salvador Medina (laboratories), salvador.medina.herrera@upc.edu

Sessions

	Date	Content	Lecturer
Week 1	September 18th	Introduction: HLT definition, drawbacks, applications	Jordi
Week 1	September 18th	Lab Session 1	Salvador
		Document Structure
Week 2	September 25th	Text selection, Tokenization, Sentence Splitting, Language Identification	Jordi
Week 2	September 25th	Lab Session 2	Salvador
		Words
Week 3	October 2nd	Morphology, Finite States Automata	Jordi
Week 3	October 2nd	Lab Session 3	Salvador
Week 4	October 9th	PoS Tagging, Hidden Markov Models	Jordi
Week 4	October 9th	Lab Session 4	Salvador
Week 5	October 16th	Lexical Semantics, Semantic Resources	Jordi
Week 5	October 16th	Lab Session 5	Salvador
Week 6	October 23th	Word Sense Disambiguation	Jordi
Week 6	October 23th	Lab Session 6	Salvador
	October 30st	No class - FIB mid-term exams week (No IHLT midterm, though)
Week 7	November 6th	The session has been suspended due to the weather alert	Jordi
		Word Sequences
Week 8	November 13th	Named Entity Recognition and Classification, Noun Phrase Recognition	Jordi
Week 8	November 13th	Lab Session 7	Salvador
		Sentences
Week 9	November 20th	Syntactic Parsing, Grammars Exercises about CFGs	Jordi
Week 9	November 20th	Lab Session 8: Project Tutoring	Salvador
Week 10	November 27th	Syntactic Parsing: Parsers Exercises about Syntactic Parsers	Jordi
Week 10	November 27th	Lab Session 9	Salvador
		Sentence Sequences
Week 11	December 4th	Coreference Resolution Exercises about Coreference Resolution	Jordi
Week 11	December 4th	Exercises (no lab session)	Jordi
Week 12	December 11th	Exercises	Jordi
Week 12	December 11th	Project Presentations (Face-to-face)	Salvador
Week 13	December 18th	Project Presentations (Face-to-face)	Salvador
Week 13	December 18th	Project Presentations (Face-to-face)	Salvador

Important dates

Lab session 1 Delivery: September 25th

Lab session 2 Delivery: October 2nd

Lab session 3 Delivery: October 9th

Lab session 4 Delivery: October 16th

Lab session 5 Delivery: October 23th

Lab session 6 Delivery: November 6th

Lab session 7 Delivery: November 13th

Lab session 8: No delivery

Lab session 9 Delivery: November 27th

Project Delivery: December 11th

Final exam: January 8th

Resources

Complementary Readings

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 (eds.)
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., 2017 (online version)
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.

Software

Language Processing

Utilities