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Introduction to NLP

Silviu-Petru Cucerzan
JHU/CLSP

Short Introduction - Turing Test
 
Grammars:
- regular languages (with examples)
- context free languages (with examples)
- Chomsky hierarchy
 
Context Free Grammars for Natural Language (examples)
 
Probabilist models / Markov Assumption
 
Entropy / Perplexity / Mutual Information (just examples followed by
definitions)
 
Types / Tokens / Zipf's Law
 
Brief description of some common NLP tasks:
- POS tagging
- parsing
- meaning extraction & sense disambiguation
- named entity recognition
- error detection