Fatih University

Department of Computer Engineering

CENG 539 Natural Language Processing, 2011 Spring, Atakan Kurt

Instructor: Atakan Kurt, ext 5513, 0 532 737-2562 akurt@fatih.edu.tr, EA306, Office hours: any available time

TAs:

Haruz Reşit Zafer hrzafer@fatih.edu.tr, E-317, 5578,

Ercan Gökgöz ercangokgoz@gmail.com, E-317, 5578

Website: htpp://www.fatih.edu.tr/~akurt/courses/ceng539/spring2011/. Please check the course web site regularly for announcements, homework solutions, grades etc.

Textbook: Speech and Lang Processing, Jurafsky & Martin, 2nd Ed. Pearson, 2009. Download slides (a local copy) here and fıgures here.

Grading (tentative)

%90 Project, %10 Quizzes

Project (Follow the project in the project page please.)

Course Contents (Tentative)

Regular Expression & Automata

Words & Transducers

N-Grams

POS Tagging

Hidden Markov & Maximum Entropy Models

Formal Grammars of English

Syntactic Parsing

Statistical Parsing

Features & unification

Language & Complexity

Representation of meaning

Computational Semantics

Lexical Semantics

Project Software:

Dilmac: http://nlp.ceng.fatih.edu.tr:8180/dilmac/