Computational Linguistics Course at FUB

Course Description

Syllabus^

Why is language/speech difficult and interesting?; Ambiguity, communication, inference ...; Phonetics, Morphology, Syntax; Semantics; Pragmatics; Formal Grammars, Parsing; Logic and NLP; Corpora, Ontologies, Wordnet. History of the field.

Objectives ^

This course presents a graduate-level introduction to computational linguistics, the primary concern of which is the study of human language use from a computational perspective. The principal objectives of the course are to provide students with a broad overview of the field, and prepare them for further study computational linguistics and language technologies. No previous knowledge of linguistic theory and linguistic applications is assumed. Some background in First Order Logic is preferred.

Textbooks^

The recommended text books for the course are:

• Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin, Speech and Language Processing, Prentice-Hall, 2000.
• Patrick Blackburn and Kristina Striegnitz (BS) Natural Language Processing Techniques in Prolog
• Patrick Blackburn and Johan Bos (BB1) Representation and Inference for Natural Language A First Course in Computational Semantics
• Patrick Blackburn and Johan Bos (BB2) Working with Discourse Representation Theory

See the Course Description of the specific academic year you are interested in, for further information.

General^

What is Computational Linguistics?

References^

Furhter references besides the suggested textbooks are:

• Handbooks
• Mark Aronoff, Janie Rees-Miller Handbook of Linguistics
• Robert Dale, Hermann Moisl and Harold Somers, eds. Handbook of Natural Language Processing, 2000.
• Ruslan Mitkov (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics. 2003.
• Johan van Benthem and Alice ter Meulen (eds.) Handbook of Logic, Language and Information
• Statistical approaches
  • Christopher Manning and Hinrich Schutze. Foundations of Statistical NLP, MIT Press, 1999.
  • Eugene Charniak. Statistical Language Learning, MIT Press, 1996.
  • Frederick Jelinek. Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition, MIT Press, 1998.
• Logic Based approaches
  • B. Partee, A. ter Meulen and R. E. Wall, Mathematical methods in linguistics, 1990.
  • L.T.F. Gamut, Logic, language, and meaning
  • H. Kamp and U. Reyle. From Discourse to Logic: An Introduction to Model-theoretic Semantics of Natural Language, Formal Logic and Discourse Representation Theory, 1993.
  • Johan Bos and Patrick Blackburn, Representation and Inference for Natural Language
• Other references
  • James Allen. Natural Language Understanding, 2nd edition. 
  • Owen RambowFormal and Computational Aspects of Natural Language Syntax PhD Thesis.
  , 1994.
  • Victoria A. Fromkin Linguistics An Introduction to Linguistic Theory, Balckwell Publishing.
  • Lucja M. Iwanska and Stuart C. Shapiro, eds. Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Representation, MIT Press, 2000.
  • B.J.Grosz, K.Spark Jones, B.Lynn Webber(eds.), Readings in Natural Language Processing, Morgan Kaufmann, Los Altos, 1986
  • Roland R. Hausser. Foundations of Computational Linguistics: Human-Computer Communication in Natural Language, Springer Verlag, 2001.
  • R. A. Cole, J. Mariani, H. Uszkoreit, A. Zaenen, V. Zue, G. Battista Varile, A. Zampolli (eds.) Human Language Technology. A Survey of the State of the Art . [PDF]
  • G.Ferrari, Introduzione al Natural Language Processing, Calderini, 1991.
  • Patrick Doyle. Natural Language
  • Dave Inman. NLP Tutorials
  • Karen Sparck Jones. Natural language processing: she needs something old and something new (maybe something borrowed and something blue, too)
  • Thierry Dutoit A Short Introduction to Text-to-Speech Synthesis.
  • Beatrice Santorini Anthony Kroch The syntax of natural language: An online introduction using the Trees program

Resources^

NLTK

On-line Course on Computational Semantics

On-line Course on Prolog

Natural Language Software Registry

Xerox Finite State Tools

Links^

• Association for Computational Linguistics
• European Chapter of ACL
• European studies on Computational Linguistics
• HLTCentral, A service funded by the EU IST Programme


• The LINGUIST List, the international info site for linguistics
• LT-World
• Speech and Language Web Resources
  
• Bibliographic Search
• ACL Anthology
• LIDO Bibliographic reference server at DFKI and University of Saarbuecken specialized in NLP and AI.


• Computational Linguistics (Journal)


• A Glossary of Linguistic Terms. By Dr Peter Coxhead
• A Glossary of Linguistic Terms, Abbreviations, and Symbols. By Beatrice Santorini
• The Natural Language Processing Dictionary
• SIL Glossary of Linguistic Terms


• The ACL Listing of NLP courses