"Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science

Natural language processing. Semantics and pragmatic aspects.
Code
Semes-
ter
Hours: C+S+L
Credits
Type
Section
MI361
2
2+2+0
9
compulsory
Sisteme inteligente - în limba engleză
Teaching Staff in Charge
Prof. TATAR Doina, Ph.D.,  dtatarcs.ubbcluj.ro
Aims
The semantics and pragmatics of natural language processing are central in human-computer interaction. Also, these aspects are important for text mining, text summarization, text generation and machine translation.
Content
1. Intensional logic of Montague. Translation of expressions in natural language to intensional logic. Glyn Morrill and Lambek calculus. Categorial grammars.
2. Word disambiguation: algorithms for supervised, bootstrapping and non-supervised disambiguation. Algorithms for client/server disambiguation.
3. Reference (anaphora) resolution. Mitkov's algorithm. Knowledge bases method.
4. Automatic interpretation of dialog acts. Features structures and dialog manager.
Conversational agents.

References
1. J.ALLEN: "Natural language understanding", Benjamin/Cummings Publ., 2nd ed., 1995.
2. D.JURAFSKY, J.MARTIN: "Speech and language processing", Prentice Hall, 2000.
3. A.LECOMTE: "Grammaire et theorie de la preuve. Une introduction", T. A. L., 1996, vol 37, no.2, pp 3-37.
4. C.MANNING, H.SCHUTZE: "Foundation of statistical natural language processing", MIT, 1999.
5. R. MITKOV: "Anaphora resolution", Ed. Longman, 2002.
6. G.MORRILL: "Type LogicalGrammar.Categorial Logic of Signs", Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.
7. S.J.RUSSELL, P.NORVIG: "Artificial intelligence.A modern approach", Prentice-Hall
8. D.TATAR: "Inteligenta artificiala: demonstrare automata de teoreme, prelucrarea limbajului natural", Editura Albastra, Microinformatica, 2001.
9. D.TATAR: "Inteligenta artificiala. Aplicatii in prelucrarea limbajului natural", Editura Albastra, Microinformatica, 2003, ISBN 973-650-100-0.
Assessment
The examination is by oral exam, with the subjects from all the matter (60%). Will be evaluated the activity of understanding and communication of some recent papers in the field ; the realisation of a project during the laboratory will be also evaluated (40%).