Syntactic Analysis in Language Technology (5LN455)
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- Course date: Autumn 2013 (vecka 46 2013 - vecka 03 2014)
- Course coordinator, teacher: Sara Stymne
- Examiner, teacher: Joakim Nivre
News
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Contents
The course gives an introduction to methods and algorithms used in automatic syntactic analysis and provides the skills that are required to apply and implement practical systems based on these methods. The course covers both phrase structure analysis and dependency analysis.
Examination
The course examination is split into four assignments and one seminar. The following grading system will be used both for the complete course and for all assignments: Fail (Underkänd, U), Pass (Godkänd, G), Pass with Distinction (Väl Godkänd, VG). The grade for course will be G if you get at least G on all assignments and the seminar, VG if you also get the grade VG on at least two of the assignments, and U otherwise.
Deadlines
Each assignment has a deadline, which will be announced well in advance. In case you fail to meet the deadline, you have the chance to re-submit the assignment for a second deadline, two weeks after the first one. In case you fail to meet even the second deadline, the corresponding assignment will be graded as Fail (U). (See Språkteknologiprogrammens Policy för examination [in Swedish]).
Assignments
Assignment 1. Hand-in assignment about phrase structure parsing. Detailed description. Deadline: 2013-12-11.
Assignment 2. Implementation of the central component of a phrase structure parser. Detailed description. Deadline: 2013-12-11.
Assignment 3. Hand-in assignment about dependency parsing. Detailed description. Deadline: 2014-01-15.
Assignment 4. Practical parsing with MaltParser. Detailed description. Deadline: 2014-01-15.
Final seminar
During the final seminar we will discuss issues related to the assignment and to the course in general. In order to get a passing grad on the seminar you need to prepare for it, and be active during the seminar. Detailed descriptionThe final seminar is obligatory. If you miss it you will have to do a complementary task. Contact Sara if this is the case.
Literature
Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin. Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition. Second Edition, Pearson Education, 2009. (Main course book.)
Sandra Kübler, Ryan McDonald, and Joakim Nivre. Dependency Parsing. Morgan and Claypool, 2009. (Electronic edition)
Schedule
All lectures take place in room Turing (9-2042).
Wednesday 2013-11-13 (13–15) Sara Stymne
Introduction
Reading: J&M 12.1–12.7.Monday 2013-11-18 (10–12) Sara Stymne
The CKY algorithm part 1: Recognition
Reading: J&M 13.1–13.3, 13.4.1.Wednesday 2013-11-20 (10–12) Sara Stymne
The CKY algorithm part 2: Probabilistic parsing
Reading: J&M 14.1–14.2.Wednesday 2013-11-27 (13–15) Sara Stymne
Treebank grammars and parser evaluation
Reading: J&M 12.4 (again), 14.3, 14.7.Wednesday 2013-12-04 (10–12) Sara Stymne
The Earley algorithm
Reading: J&M 13.4.2.Wednesday 2013-12-11
Deadline for Assignments 1 and 2Wednesday 2013-12-11 (13–15) Joakim Nivre
Arc-factored dependency parsing
Reading: KMN 1, 4.1, 4.3.Monday 2013-12-16 (10–12) Joakim Nivre
Collins’ and Eisner’s algorithms
Reading: KMN 4.2 (not 4.2.2).Wednesday 2013-12-18 (10–12) Sara Stymne
Transition-based dependency parsing
Reading: KMN 3.1–3.3.Wednesday 2014-01-15 (13–15) Sara Stymne
Seminar / student presentationsWednesday 2014-01-15
Deadline for Assignments 3 and 4