Academic year2018/19
CourseDATA SCIENCE AND BUSINESS INFORMATICS
Code635AA
Credits6
PeriodSemester 1
LanguageEnglish
Modules | Area | Type | Hours | Teacher(s) |
TEXT ANALYTICS | INF/01 | LEZIONI | 48 | |
Obiettivi di apprendimento
Knowledge
Learning fundamental techniques, algorithms and models used in natural language processing. Understanding of the architectures of typical text analytics applications and of libraries for building them. Expertise in design, implementation and evaluation of applications that exploit analysis, interpretation and transformation of texts.
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Progetto
Assessment criteria of knowledge
Homeworks and final project.
Skills
Ability to design, implement and evaluate applications that exploit analysis, interpretation and transformation of texts.
Syllabus
The course presents principles, models and the state of the art techniques for the analysis of natural language, focusing mainly on statistical machine learning approaches and Deep Learning in particular. Students will learn how to apply these techniques in a wide range of applications using modern programming libraries.Formal and statistical approaches to NLP.
- Statistical methods: Language Model, Hidden Markov Model, Viterbi Algorithm, Generative vs Discriminative Models
- Linguistic essentials: words, lemmas, morphology, PoS, phrases.
- Parsing: constituency and dependency parsing.
- Processing Pipelines: UIMA, Tanl
- Lexical semantics: collocations, corpora, thesauri, gazetteers.
- Distributional Semantics: Word embeddings, Character embeddings.
- Deep Learning for natural language.
- Applications: Entity recognition, Entity linking, Classification, Summarization.
- Opinion mining, Sentiment Analysis.
- Question answering, Language inference, Dialogic interfaces (chatbots)
- Statistical Machine Translation.
- NLP libraries: NLTK, Theano, Tensorflow, Keras
Bibliography
- C. Manning, H. Schutze. Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing. MIT Press, 2000.
- D. Jurafsky, J.H. Martin, Speech and Language Processing. 2nd edition, Prentice-Hall, 2008.
- S. Kubler, R. McDonald, J. Nivre. Dependency Parsing. 2010.
- P. Koehn. Statistical Machine Translation. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- S. Bird, E. Klein, E. Loper. Natural Language Processing with Python.
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