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Syllabus NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING - 67658
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Last update 03-08-2019
HU Credits: 3

Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor)

Responsible Department: Computer Sciences

Semester: 1st Semester

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: E. Safra

Course/Module Coordinator: Omri Abend

Coordinator Email: omri.abend@mail.huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours:

Teaching Staff:
Dr. Omri Abend

Course/Module description:
Natural Langue Processing (NLP) addresses the automatic analysis of text and speech, and interfaces with various fields such as formal languages, machine learning, linguistics and cognitive psychology. It also has a variety of applications, e.g., in machine translation, information retrieval, and human-computer interaction. The course will present the main challenges the field is facing and (mostly statistical) techniques for addressing them.

Course/Module aims:
Acquaintance with the main problems of the field, its existing capabilities and hands-on experience in implementing them.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Implement basic techniques in Natural Language Processing, and get a basic understanding of the current literature in the field.

Attendance requirements(%):
None

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Lectures and tutorials where needed

Course/Module Content:
1. Language models and smoothing
2. Bag of words models
3. Log-linear models and feed-forward neural networks.
4. Linear chain methods,
tagging, named entity recognition
5. Recurrent neural networks
6. Vector space models of semantics
7. Sentiment analysis
8. Syntactic parsing:
grammar-based and grammar-less methods
9. Information extraction and semantic role labeling

Required Reading:
TBA

Additional Reading Material:

Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 70 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 30 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %

Additional information:
 
Students needing academic accommodations based on a disability should contact the Center for Diagnosis and Support of Students with Learning Disabilities, or the Office for Students with Disabilities, as early as possible, to discuss and coordinate accommodations, based on relevant documentation.
For further information, please visit the site of the Dean of Students Office.
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