NLP Technology - NPFL092
Title: Technologie pro NLP
Guaranteed by: Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (32-UFAL)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2021
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 5
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/2, MC [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: cancelled
Language: English, Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Additional information: https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/courses/npfl092
Guarantor: prof. Ing. Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Ph.D.
Mgr. Rudolf Rosa, Ph.D.
Class: Informatika Bc.
Informatika Mgr. - Matematická lingvistika
Classification: Informatics > Computer and Formal Linguistics
Incompatibility : NPFL125
Interchangeability : NPFL125
Is incompatible with: NPFL125
Is interchangeable with: NPFL125
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Annotation -
The aim of the course is to get students familiar with basic software tools used in natural language processing.
Last update: T_UFAL (10.05.2010)
Course completion requirements -

To pass the course. you will need to submit homework assignments and do a written test. A brief overview follows; detailed information on grading can be found at https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/courses/npfl092#grading

Homework assignments

  • Assignments will be set in the class and specified on the website.
  • To pass the course, you need to get at least 50% of the total achievable points for the assignments.
  • If you miss the deadline, there is a second deadline in 2 weeks, but your points for the assignment will be multiplied by 0.5; after the second deadline, you get 0 points.

Test

  • There will be a written test at the end of the semester.
  • To pass the course, you need to get at least 50% of the total points from the test.

Grading

  • Your grade is based on the average of your performance; the test and the homework assignments are weighted 1:1.
  • ≥ 90%: grade 1 (excellent)
  • ≥ 70%: grade 2 (very good)
  • ≥ 50%: grade 3 (good)
  • < 50%: grade 4 (fail)
Last update: Rosa Rudolf, Mgr., Ph.D. (02.10.2018)
Literature -

Mendel Cooper: Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide, http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

Allen B. Downey: Think Python 2e, O'Reilly Media, http://greenteapress.com/wp/think-python-2e/

Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, and Edward Loper: Natural Language Processing with Python, O'Reilly Media, 2015, http://www.nltk.org/book/

Dive into NLTK: http://textminingonline.com/dive-into-nltk-part-i-getting-started-with-nltk

Last update: T_UFAL (05.05.2017)
Syllabus -

Survival in Linux, Bash command line and scripting, text-processing commands.

Introduction to Python, text processing, regular expressions.

Object-oriented interface for processing linguistic structures in Python.

Representing linguistic structures in XML, processing XML in Python.

NLP tools and frameworks, processing morphologically and syntactically annotated data, visualization, search.

Last update: T_UFAL (05.05.2017)