Natural Language Processing. Semantics and Pragmatic Aspects |
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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.
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Content |
1. Text entailment. Systems participating at RTE-1 and RTE-2 Challenges of recognising text entailment.
2. A lexical-semantic dictionary, WordNet. Semantic relations: synsets, hypernyms, hyponyms, meronoyms, antonyms. 3. Discourse structure. Reference (anaphora) resolution : Mitkov Algorithm and KB algorithm, Dialogue : Feature Structures in dialog representation, Automatic interpretation of dialog acts, Discourse segmentation. Conversational agents. 4. Text Mining: Text summarization, Text categorization, Information Retrieval. 5. Intensional logic of Montague. Translation of expressions from natural language to intensional logic. Glyn Morrill and Lambek calculus. |
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. 10. Editor R. MITKOV: The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics, Oxford University Press, 2003. |
Assessment |
The examination is by written 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 will be also evaluated (40%). |
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