Speech and Natural Language Processing

Unit 1: Natural Language Processing (NLP)

• Applications of NLP

• Key Issues in NLP

• The Lexicon

• Morphology

Unit 2: Phrase Structure and Syntax

• Phrase Structure Grammars

• English Syntax

• Part of Speech Tagging

Unit 3: Syntactic Parsing

• Top-Down Parsing Strategies

• Bottom-Up Parsing Strategies

Unit 4: Semantics

• Word Sense Disambiguation

• Semantic Parsing

• Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis

Unit 5: Information Extraction & Summarization

• Information Extraction

• Automatic Summarization

Unit 6: Information Retrieval & Machine Translation

• Information Retrieval

• Question Answering

• Machine Translation