Hasso-Plattner-Institut
Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Hasso Plattner
 

Natural Language Processing

General information

  • Overall responsibility: Dr. Mariana Neves
  • Location: HS3
  • Time: Mon 13:30 - 15:00
  • First lecture: Mon April 11th, 2016
  • 2 Semesterwochenstunden (SWS)
  • 3 ECTS (graded)

Grading

60% project (in teams)

40% final exam

Book

Speech and Natural Language Processing, Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin, Prentice Hall, 2nd edition (29. April 2008) or Prentice Hall International, Pearson New International Edition (17. Juli 2013)

Program

(Program is subject to change)

 

Session Date Topic
1 April 11, 2016 Lecture: Introduction to Natural Language Processing
2 April 18, 2016 (no lecture)
3 April 25, 2016 Lecture: Regular Expressions, Automata, Morphology and Transducers
4 May 2, 2016

Project presentation: introduction; Lecture: Words and Language Model

5 May 9, 2016 Lecture: Part-of-Speech Tagging
6 May 16, 2016 (Pfingstmontag - no lecture)
7 May 23, 2016

Project update: POS tags; Lecture: Syntactic Parsing

8 May 30, 2016 Lecture: Lexical Semantics
9 June 6, 2016 Lecture: Discourse analysis 
10June 13, 2016

(**room HE.52**) Project update: Parsing & Semantics; Lecture: Text Classification

11 June 20, 2016

Guest presentation: "Using NLP techniques to enable process mining" by Thomas Baier from Lana Labs; Lecture: Sentiment Analysis; Named-entity Recognition

12 June 27, 2016

Project update: Discourse & NER; Lecture: Information Extraction

13 July 4, 2016Lecture: Question Answering and Summarization
14July 11, 2016Project final Presentation (15 minutes for each team)
15July 18, 2016(no lecture - overlap with TuK)
16July 22, 2016Final exam (room A2.1, 10:00)