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T-61.5020 Statistical modeling of natural language (5 op, L)

Lecturers: Doc. Timo Honkela, M.Sc.(Tech) Teemu Hirsimäki ja M.Sc.(Tech) Jaakko Väyrynen.
Assistant: M.Sc.(Tech) Sami Virpioja
Lectures: Wed 12-14 room T5 (Tietotekniikan talo) From Wed 23.1.2008 during the spring (periods III + IV)
Exercises: Mon 12-14 room T5 from Mon 28.1.2008.
Home page: http://www.cis.hut.fi/Opinnot/T-61.5020/
Previous years: 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002

• Course objectives and contents
• Course materials become available during the course
• Lecture timetable and materials
• Timetable and problems for exercise sessions
• Instructions for assignment works and report example (in Finnish)
• Exam results 10.5.2006
• Exam results 26.10.2006
• Exam results 9.5.2007

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Objectives and contents

This course provides an overview on adaptive and statistical methods applied to language technology. In particular, three application areas are considered:

• document management and information retrieval,
• speech recognition and
• machine translation.

Each student needs to prepare an assigment work and pass the final exam to pass the course.

Course material

Earlier the course has been based on the book by Christopher D. Manning and Hinrich Schütze called Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing. This book is still used as background material.

Background material

Introduction to language technology

• Kieliteknologian johdantokurssin luentomoniste (Kimmo Koskenniemi)
• kieliteknologista termistöä suomennosten kera (Kimmo Koskeniemi)
• NLP dictionary (Bill Wilson)

Other resources

• Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Systems: Senseval
• Dictionaries: www.yourdictionary.com
• Encyclopedia Britannica: www.britannica.com.