Master in Artificial Intelligence (MAI)

Advanced Human Language Technology

Instructors

·         Lluís Padró, (coordinator), padro /at /cs /upc /edu
Office: Omega-320, Campus Nord UPC

·         Marta Ruiz Costa-Jussà, marta.ruiz /at /upc /edu
Office:
D5 215, Campus Nord UPC

·         Horacio Rodríguez horacio /at /cs /upc /edu
Office: Omega-316, Campus Nord UPC

Lectures

Date

Topic

14 February 2019

syntactic parsing 1 (Horacio)
Session slides (1)
Session slides (2)

Lab Session L11
Lab sessions material

21 February 2019

syntactic parsing 2 (Horacio)
Session slides (3)

Session slides (4)

No Lab Session (strike)

28 February 2019

Distances (Marta)
Session slides

Lab Session L12
Lab sessions material

07 March 2019

Lexical Semantics + SRL (Horacio)
Session slides (1)

Session slides (2)

Lab Session L11

14 March 2019

Semantic parsing 1 (Horacio)
Session slides

Lab Session L12

21 March 2019  

Semantic parsing 2 (Horacio)
Session slides

Lab Session L11

28 March 2019

Distributional models 1 (Marta)
Session: slides

Lab Session L12

04 April 2019

Distributional models 2 (Marta)
Session slides

Lab Session L11

11 April 2019

Linguistic Inference (Horacio)
Session slides

Lab Session L12

18 April 2019

Spring break (Easter holydays)

25 April 2019

Deep learning for NLP 1 (Marta)
Session slides 1
Session slides 2

Lab Session L11

02 May 2019

Deep learning for NLP 2 (Marta)
Session slides

Lab Session L12

09 May 2019

Deep learning for NLP 3 (Marta)
Session slides

Lab Session L11

16 May 2019

Deep Learning for Linguistic tasks (Horacio)

Session slides

23 May 2019

Public presentation of lab projects

30 May 2019

Final exam

 

Resources

Books

·         Alexander Clark, Chris Fox, Shalom Lappin (eds.), The Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics, John Wiley & Sons, 2012.

·         R. Dale, H. Moisl, H.Somers (ed.), Handbook of Natural Language Processing. Marcel Dekker, New York, 2000.

·         Nitin Indurkhya, Fred J. Damerau, Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition. Chapman & Hall/CRC Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition, 2010.

·         D. Jurafsky, James H. Martin, Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., 2000. (a second edition of this book has been published in 2008 with quite a few changes, a third edition has been published in 2017 with substantial changes)

·         C. Manning, H. Schütze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing. MIT Press Cambridge, Mass., 1999.

·         R. Mitkov (ed.), The Oxford handbook of Computational Linguistics. Oxford University Press, 2004.

Lecture Notes

·         Michael Collins, Language Models (lecture notes).

Papers

·         Michael Collins,
Head-Driven Statistical Models for Natural Language Parsing,
Computational Linguistics, Volume 29, Number 4, 2003

Software

·         Freeling