Lecture notes

Introduction

• Kinds of linguistic knowledge
• Basic linguistic tasks
• Knowledge-based and statistical methods
• Overview of knowledge-based methods
• Overview of statistical methods

Speech

• Introduction to phonetics and phonology
• Speech recognition
• Speech synthesis

Words

• Morphology 1
• Morphology 2
• Minimum description length
• "Meaning"
• Word senses
• Language learning

Sentences

• Chunking
• Constituency grammars
• Parsing
• Dependency grammars
• Ontologies, lexical databases, syntactic/semantic features

Generation

• Generating referring expressions
• Summarization

Translation

• Language differences
• Introduction to MT
• Data-driven MT

Discourse

• Sentiment analysis
• Dialog

© 2012. Indiana University and Michael Gasser. www.cs.indiana.edu/classes/B651/notes.html 2012-04-10