Section outline

  • February 28th, Wednesday (10:30-12:30)

    Course administration and presentation

    • Content outline
    • Laboratory sessions
    • Course requirements
    • Textbook
    • Project
    • Coursework
    • Statistics
    • Lecturer evaluation

    Natural language processing: An unexpected journey

    • What is natural language processing?
    • A few case studies: finance, social networks, health
    • Very short history of natural language processing
    • Why is natural language processing tricky?
    • Ambiguity, composition, recursion and hidden structure
    • How does natural language processing work?
    • Learning & knowledge
    • Search & learning
    • Market, environment and ethics

    References

    • Slides from the lecture
    • Eisenstein, chapter 1 for learning & knowledge and for search & learning

    Resources