Part II - NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

DATE
TOPIC
MATERIALS
-
 COMPUTATIONAL PHONETICS and
SPEECH PROCESSING:
  • Speech samples: properties and acoustic measures
  • Analysis in the frequency domain, Spectrograms
  • Applications in the acoustic phonetic field.
  • Speech recognition with Deep Neural Networks
  • Spoken Dialogue Systems (ChatBots)
 - Slides (II.1), Link
- RJ - Chapter 2
- Slides (II.2), (II.3), (II.3b)
- Tutorial [Fabien, Doshi]
- [FT] - Chapter 8
- [SLP3] - Chapter 15 and 16
-
 - Tokenisation and Sentence splitting
- Sub-word Tokenisation		 - Slides (II.4),
- [Schmid, 2008]
- Tutorial1, Tutorial2
-
 COMPUTATIONAL MORPHOLOGY:
  • Morphological operations
  • Static lexica, Two-level morphology using FSA
 - Slides (II.5)
- Beesley & Karttunen [2000] Tutorial, Chap. 1
- [FT] - Section 6.2
-
 COMPUTATIONAL SYNTAX:
  • Part-of-speech tagging and Lemmatisation.
  • Grammars for natural language:
    • Phrase structure grammars
    • Dependency Grammars
    • Treebanks
 - [FT] - Sections 6.3, 6.4, 7.1
- [SLP3] - Chapters 19 and 20
- Slides (II.5) (II.6)
- Paper [Carlberger, Krann 1999]
- Paper [Tamburini 2016]
-
  • Formal and Natural languages:
    • The Chomsky hierarchy.
    • Natural language complexity.
  • Modern formalisms for parsing natural languages (LTAG).
  • Natural language Dependency Parsing.
 - Slides (II.6)
- Paper [Branco, 2018]
- Slide [Horacek et al. 2011]
- [SLP3] - Chapter 20
- Slide [Stymne, 2014]]
- Paper [Traxler, 2010]
- Paper [Vacareanu et al. 2020]
-
 COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS:
- Lexical semantic resources:
   WordNet and FrameNet.
- Word Sense Disambiguation.
 - [FT] - Sections 6.6, 6.7
- [SLP3] - Chapters 22 & App. I
- Slides (II.7), (II.8) - [Miller et al. 93] (only the 1st and 2nd papers)
- [Miller Fellbaum 2007]
- FrameNet site

REFERENCES

[FT]
Tamburini, F. (2026). Neural Models for the Automatic Processing of Italian, 2nd Edition, Bologna: Pàtron. Link.

[SLP3]
D. Jurafsky and J.H. Martin (in press). Speech and Language Processing, Prentice Hall. (3rd edition DRAFT, Aug25 version)