Lexical Analysis of Natural Language - NPFL088
Title: Lexikální analýza přirozeného jazyka
Guaranteed by: Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (32-UFAL)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2016
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: cancelled
Language: Czech, English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: RNDr. Martin Holub, Ph.D.
Class: DS, matematická lingvistika
Informatika Mgr. - volitelný
Classification: Informatics > Computer and Formal Linguistics
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Annotation -
Last update: T_KSVI (20.05.2009)
Introduction to computational aspects of lexical semantics. Basic concepts and issues. Fundamental approaches to lexical disambiguation.
Literature -
Last update: T_KSVI (20.05.2009)

Hanks, P. (ed.): Lexicology. Critical Concepts in Linguistics. Routledge, 2008. (selected chapters)

Jurafsky, D. and Martin, J. H.: Speech and Language Processing. Prentice Hall Series in Artificial Intelligence, 2008. (selected chapters)

Agirre, E. and Edmonds, P. (eds.): Word Sense Disambiguation: Algorithms and Applications. Springer, 2007. (selected chapters)

Syllabus -
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1. Introduction
Lexical semantics as a field of study and its historical development. Relation to other fields of computational linguistics and natural language processing.

2. Basic concepts
Words and meanings. Basic lexical relations. Ambiguity and vagueness in natural language. Lexical disambiguation and its possible applications.

3. Structure of lexicons
Lexical entries, lexical items, sense definitions, syntagmatic and semantic information in lexicons.

4. Existing lexical resources
Electronic dictionaries and other related electronic knowledge sources. Valency dictionaries. Semantic lexical networks.

5. Corpus lexicography
Statistical tools for corpus analysis. Lexical association measures. Collocations as semantic clues.

6. Word sense disambiguation
The task and fundamental methods. Algorithms, heuristics, and knowledge sources used in the field. Verb valency frames disambiguation. Corpus pattern analysis.