Seminar on Computational Applied Linguistics (CAL Seminar)
Dr. Ari Rappoport; a-r-i-r AT cs.huji.ac.il.
Second semester; Thursdays 14-16; Shprinzak; class number: 67674; 2 credit points.
This seminar examines a variety of state-of-the-art results related to
computational linguistics (natural language processing).
Students will read papers and give presentations.
Topics covered in previous years include:
- Unsupervised and supervised semantics (lexical) acquistion (focus on extraction of semantic relationships).
- Grammar induction.
- Named Entity Recognition.
- Summarization.
- Semantic Role Labeling.
- Sentiment analysis.
- Machine Translation (mostly Statistical MT).
- Word Sense Disambiguation.
- Text generation (e.g., of referring expressions).
- Test Generation (for human subjects).
- Temporal segmentation and ordering of events.
- Parsing.
- Text classification.
- Question Answering.