Section outline

  • March 1st, Friday (10:30-12:30)

    Essentials of linguistics

    • What is linguistics?
    • Phonology
    • Morphology
    • Part of speech
    • Syntax: phrase structure and dependency structure
    • Lexical semantics and general semantics
    • Pragmatics and discourse

    Text normalization

    • Word types and word tokens
    • Corpora
    • Language identification and spell checking
    • Text normalization: contraction, punctuation and special characters

    References

    • Slides from the lecture
    • Jurafsky and Martin, chapter 2

    Resources