Natural Language Processing & Text Mining
Natural Language Processing & Text Mining
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Goran Glavaš
 Teaching Assistants: Benedikt Ebing, Fabian David Schmidt 
Lecture: Wednesday 10:00 - 12:00 in Übungsraum II (Informatik)
 Execises: Friday (a) 12:00 - 14:00 in Übungsraum I (Informatik); (b) 14:00 - 16:00 in Seminarraum II (Informatik)
Kickoff: 19.10.2022 in Zoom (see WueCampus for details)
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Objective of the lecture
This lecture teaches the fundamentals of natural language processing and text mining. The tentative schedule of lectures is as follows:
19.10. Introduction to the course (Zoom)
 26.10. Preprocessing (tok, ss, norm.)
 2.11. POS-tagging
 9.11. ML & Optimization intro
 16.11. Classification with MaxEnt
 23.11. MEMM & CRF
 30.11. Grammars & Parsing
 7.12. Parsing: CKY & Earley
 14.12. Parsing: Shift-Reduce & Graph-based
 21.12. IE & NER
 11.1. Relation extraction & NSHC
 18.1. Coreference resolution
 25.1. Language Modeling
 1.2. Distributional Semantics (Embeddings)
 8.2. Topic Modeling (LDA)