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    INQ0091105 - NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING 2025-2026 - PROF. GIORGIO SATTA

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    Content: Detailed description of course content and prerequisites can be found here.

    Textbook: The adopted textbook is Speech and Language Processing (3rd Edition, draft, Jan 6th 2026) by Dan Jurafsky and James H. Martin, available here.

    Logistics: Lectures are on Thursday 10:30-12:30 (room Ce) and on Friday 10:30-12:30 (room Ce).

    Office hours: Thursday 12:30-14:30, email appointment required. Meetings can be face-to-face or else on-line at this Zoom link.

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    Day 01

    March 5th, Thursday (10:30-12:30)

    Course administration and presentation

    • Content outline
    • Laboratory sessions
    • Course requirements
    • Textbook
    • Project
    • Coursework

    Natural language processing: An unexpected journey

    • What is natural language processing?
    • Very short history of natural language processing
    • Why is natural language processing tricky?
    • Ambiguity, composition, recursion and hidden structure
    • Language & learning
    • Miscellanea

    References

    • Slides from the lecture

    Resources