T-61.5020 Statistical and Adaptive Natural Language Processing (5 cr, L)

T-61.281 Luonnollisen kielen tilastollinen käsittely

Lecturer: Docent Timo Honkela
Assistant: Sami Virpioja
Lectures: Tuesday at 10-12 room T3 (Computer science building) starting 17.1.2006
Homepage: http://www.cis.hut.fi/Opinnot/T-61.5020/
Language: FINNISH

Excercises 2006: Some problems and answers in English
Excercises 2005: Problems and answers in English

Contents: The course gives an overview of the application of statistical and adaptive methods for analysis of natural language, for example, the analysis, organisation and search from text collections, language modelling for natural language recognition, syntactic and semantic analysis, probabilistic grammars and parsing, and statistical machine translation.

Requirements: Examination and project work.

The course is mainly based on the book Christopher D. Manning and Hinrich Schutze: Foundations of statistical natural language processing, MIT Press, 1999. Available e.g. in electronic bookstores.