Computational Linguistics 16-17
The Computational Linguistics course is taught by Raffaella Bernardi (RB) (UniTN) and Carlo Strapparava (CS) with support by Alberto Lavelli (FBK).
Classes are on Mondays (13:00-15:00), Wednesdays (15:00-17:00) and Thursdays (13:00-15:00). For updated information, see the online time-table
Information about the final exam
Students can choose between the following two exam modalities:
- written exercises on the topics marked by * and a project on a topic selected among the other ones.
- written exercises on both parts.
Students have to notify Raffaella about the modality the choose. In case of they choose the first option, they have to discuss the topic of the project with either Raffaella or Carlo.
Materials
- Speech and Language Processing (SNLP)
- Slides: The ones used by RB will be posted below after each class. The ones used by CS will be posted at his webpage
- For formal semantics and in particular lambda-calculus: Mathematical Methods in Linguistics Barbara Partee, Alice ter Meulen, Robert Wall
- Computer Vision: textbook by Richard Szeliski.
- Reading list on Deep learning (by Bengio)
- See Awesome Community-Curated NLP List (Liling Tan)
Further references and NLP tools
- 20.02.2017, (RB*)
- Introduction to CL: admin, intro to Formal Languages, Regural Languages and Finite State Automata
- Slides
- 22.02.2017, (CS*)
- Introduction to Corpora and Annotation
- 23.02.2017, (RB*)
- Syntax: sentence structure, CFG, Chomsky Hierarchy, which FL for NL syntax,
- Slides (SNLP: ch. 12, 16.1, 16.3)
- 27.02.2015, (CS, AL*)
- Parsing: Context Free Grammars, Unification-Based Grammars
- Slides. (SNLP: ch. 13.1 and 13.2)
- 01.03.2017, (CS, AL*)
- Dependency Grammars, Treebanks and Evaluation
- Slides
- 02.03.2017, (RB*)
- History of FGs
- Slides, Exercises on CFG PLUS: Seminar by Einat Minkov (Haifa University) on Information Extraction
- 06.03.2017, (RB*)
- TAG and CG (application and abstraction)
- Slides
- 08.03.2017, (RB*)
- Exercises on CG
- 09.03.2017, (RB*)
- Semantics: Formal Semantics
- Slides
- 13.03.2017, (RB)
- Semantics: Distributional Semantics
- Slides
- 15.03.2017, (RB)
- Semantics: Compositional DS
- Slides
- 16.03.2017, (RB*)
- CFG (and CG) with Semantics
- Slides, Extra Slides Exercises,
- Background on Vectors Slides, Exercises
- 20.03.2017, (CS)
- Regular Expressions (DS)
- 22.03.2017, (CS)
- Similarity
- 23.03.2017, (CS)
- Word Sense Disambiguation
- 27.03.2017, (CS)
- Word Sense Disambiguation
- 29.03.2017, (CS)
- Affective NLP
- 30.03.2017, (CS)
- Affective NLP
- 03.04.2017, (RB*)
- Sample Exam on the first part
- Slides
- 05.04.2017, (RB*)
- Correction sample Exam
- Slides
- 06.04.2017, (RB*)
- More exercises on CG and lambda
- 12.04.2017, (RB)
- NLP application: Textual Entailment (results on SICK)
- Slides
- 13.04.2017, (RB)
- NLP application: HCI and Evaluation: Question Answering, NLIDB, IQA, IR
- Slides
- 19.04.2017, (RB)
- Language and Vision (Intro to Vision and LaVi)
- Slides
- 20.04.2017, (RB)
- Language and Vision: tasks
- Slides
- 26.04.2017, (RB)
- Language and Vision: vision and quantities
- Slides
- 11.05.2017 (RB,CS)
- Projects presentation by students
- 17.05.2017 (RB)
- Written exercises