Natural Language Processing
G22.2590
Spring 2006
Tuesday 5:00-6:50
101 Warren Weaver Hall
Instructor
Prof. Ralph Grishman
715 Broadway, Room 703
phone: 998-3497
email: grishman@cs.nyu.edu
Spring office hours: Tuesdays, 3-4 PM (no office hour 1/24 or
3/21)
Course
schedule (including assignments)
Textbook:
Speech and
Language Processing, Daniel Jurafsky and James Martin,
Prentice-Hall, 2000
Assignments and Grading
10 weekly assignments, worth a total of
40 points
(3-5 points each). A
combination of written exercises and computer exercises (using parsers,
modifying grammars, etc.). Each homework is due 1 week after
being assigned. There is a 1 point penalty for each week
late.
Assignments should be submitted in hard copy in class whenever
possible.
A term project, worth 30 points. There are a wide
range of
possibilities, including both computer implementations and research
papers.
Computer implementations may involve extensions to JET, adaptation of
JET
to additional languages, adaptation to new extraction tasks (grammar
and
lexicon development), or even entirely new systems. The term
project
is due at the last class meeting. You should plan your project well in
advance,
particularly for more ambitious efforts (such as adaptation to new
languages).
A final examination, worth 30 points.
Class Web site (this page)
www.cs.nyu.edu/courses/spring06/G22.2590-001/index.htm
Class Mailing List
g22_2590_001_sp06@cs.nyu.edu
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Other Books of Interest
Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing by
Christopher D. Manning and Hinrich Schutze, MIT Press, 1999.
Natural Language Understanding, James Allen (Benjamin /
Cummings), Second Edition, 1995.
Computational Linguistics: An Introduction, Ralph
Grishman, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1986.
Proteus Project (NYU
research
in natural language processing)
Research Sources
Journals: Computational Linguistics and Natural
Language Engineering
Conferences:
- meetings of the Association
for Computational Linguistics (ACL), including ACL Conferences,
European ACL Conferences (EACL), North American ACL Conferences
(NAACL), and Applied Natural Language Processing Conferences (ANLP)
- International Conferences on Computational Linguistics (COLING)
- Language Resource and Evaluation Conferences (LREC)
Computational Linguistics and ACL and COLING Conferences are
available on-line through the ACL
Anthology.
(hard copies of most conference proceedings are available in the
Proteus Project reading area, 715 Broadway, 7th Floor)