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Natural Language Processing BCS072

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Official AKTU syllabus of Natural Language Processing (BCS072) for B.Tech 4th Year – 3 credits, L-T-P 3-0-0. Read the unit-wise course content, course outcomes, evaluation pattern and recommended books online, or download the PDF.

Syllabus — Natural Language Processing

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BCS072 · 3 credits · L-T-P 3-0-0

Course Outcomes

At the end of course , the student will be able :

CO 1To learn the fundamentals of natural language processingK , K 1 2
CO 2To understand the use of CFG and PCFG in NLPK , K 1 2
CO 3To understand the role of semantics of sentences and pragmaticK 2
CO 4To Introduce Speech Production And Related Parameters Of Speech.K , K 1 2
CO 5To Show The Computation And Use Of Techniques Such As Short Time Fourier Transform, Linear Predictive Coefficients And Other Coefficients In The Analysis Of Speech.K K 3, 4

Course Content

L-T-P: 3-0-0

UnitTopicProposed Lecture
IINTRODUCTION: Origins and challenges of NLP – Language Modeling: Grammar-based LM, Statistical LM – Regular Expressions, Finite-State Automata – English Morphology, Transducers for lexicon and rules, Tokenization, Detecting and Correcting Spelling Errors, Minimum Edit Distance WORD LEVEL ANALYSIS : Unsmoothed N-grams, Evaluating N-grams, Smoothing, Interpolation and Backoff – Word Classes, Part-of-Speech Tagging, Rule-based, Stochastic and Transformation-based tagging, Issues in PoS tagging – Hidden Markov and Maximum Entropy models.08
IISYNTACTIC ANALYSIS: Context Free Grammars, Grammar rules for English, Treebanks, Normal Forms for grammar – Dependency Grammar – Syntactic Parsing, Ambiguity, Dynamic Programming parsing – Shallow parsing – Probabilistic CFG, Probabilistic CYK, Probabilistic Lexicalized CFGs – Feature structures, Unification of feature structures.08
IIISEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS: Requirements for representation, First-Order Logic, Description Logics – Syntax-Driven Semantic analysis, Semantic attachments – Word Senses, Relations between Senses, Thematic Roles, selectional restrictions – Word Sense Disambiguation, WSD using Supervised, Dictionary & Thesaurus, Bootstrapping methods – Word Similarity using Thesaurus and Distributional methods.08
IVBASIC CONCEPTS of Speech Processing : Speech Fundamentals: Articulatory Phonetics – Production And Classification Of Speech Sounds; Acoustic Phonetics – Acoustics Of Speech Production; Review Of Digital Signal Processing Concepts; Short-Time Fourier Transform, Filter- Bank And LPC Methods.08
VSPEECH-ANALYSIS: Features, Feature Extraction And Pattern Comparison Techniques: Speech Distortion Measures– Mathematical And Perceptual – Log–Spectral Distance, Cepstral Distances,
Weighted Cepstral Distances And Filtering, Likelihood Distortions, Spectral Distortion Using A Warped Frequency Scale, LPC, PLP And MFCC Coefficients, Time Alignment And Normalization – Dynamic Time Warping, Multiple Time – Alignment Paths. SPEECH MODELING : Hidden Markov Models: Markov Processes, HMMs – Evaluation, Optimal State Sequence – Viterbi Search, Baum-Welch Parameter Re-Estimation, Implementation Issues.08

Text Books

  1. Daniel Jurafsky, James H. Martin―Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech, Pearson Publication, 2014.
  2. Steven Bird, Ewan Klein and Edward Loper, ―Natural Language Processing with Python, First Edition, OReilly Media, 2009.
  3. Lawrence Rabiner And Biing-Hwang Juang, “Fundamentals Of Speech Recognition”, Pearson Education, 2003.
  4. Daniel Jurafsky And James H Martin, “Speech And Language Processing – An Introduction To Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, And Speech Recognition”, Pearson Education, 2002.
  5. Frederick Jelinek, “Statistical Methods Of Speech Recognition”, MIT Press, 1997.
  6. 1. Breck Baldwin, ―Language Processing with Java and LingPipe Cookbook, Atlantic Publisher, 2015.
  7. Richard M Reese, ―Natural Language Processing with Java, OReilly Media, 2015.
  8. Nitin Indurkhya and Fred J. Damerau, ―Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition, Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, 2010.
  9. Tanveer Siddiqui, U.S. Tiwary, ―Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval, Oxford University Press, 2008.

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