Faculty of Engineering, OU BE (CSE) With effect from Academic Year 2023 - 24
Course Code Course Title Core / Elective
PE 855 CS Natural Language Processing Elective
Contact Hours per Week
Prerequisite L T D P CIE SEE Credits
- 3 - - - 30 70 3
Course Objectives
➢ Introduce to some of the problems and solutions of NLP and their relation to linguistics and
statistics.
➢ This course introduces the fundamental concepts and techniques of natural language
Processing (NLP).
➢ Students will gain an in-depth understanding of the computational properties of natural
languages and the commonly used algorithms for processing linguistic information
Course Outcomes
By the end of this course, the students will be able to
➢ Show sensitivity to linguistic phenomena and an ability to model them with formal grammars.
➢ Understand and carry out proper experimental methodology for training and evaluating
empirical NLP systems
➢ Manipulate probabilities, construct statistical models over strings and trees, and
Estimate parameters using supervised and unsupervised training methods.
➢ Design, implement, and analyze NLP algorithms
➢ Design different language modelling Techniques.
UNIT - I
Finding the Structure of Words: Words and Their Components, Issues and Challenges,
Morphological Models
Finding the Structure of Documents: Introduction, Methods, Complexity of the Approaches,
Performances of the Approaches
UNIT - II
Syntax Analysis: Parsing Natural Language, Treebanks: A Data-Driven Approach to Syntax,
Representation of Syntactic Structure, Parsing Algorithms, Models for Ambiguity Resolution in Parsing,
Multilingual Issues
UNIT - III
Semantic Parsing: Introduction, Semantic Interpretation, System Paradigms, Word Sense
Systems, Software.
UNIT - IV
Predicate-Argument Structure, Meaning Representation Systems, Software.
UNIT - V
Discourse Processing: Cohension, Reference Resolution, Discourse Cohension and Structure
Language Modeling: Introduction, N-Gram Models, Language Model Evaluation, Parameter
Estimation, Language Model Adaptation, Types of Language Models, Language-Specific Modeling
Problems, Multilingual and Crosslingual Language Modeling
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Faculty of Engineering, OU BE (CSE) With effect from Academic Year 2023 - 24
Suggested Readings:
1. Daniel M. Bikel and ImedZitouni,Multilingual natural Language Processing Applications: From
Theory to Practice –Pearson Publication
2. Tanvier Siddiqui, U.S. Tiwary - Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval
3. Daniel Jurafsky& James H Martin, Speech and Natural Language Processing - Pearson
Publications
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