Introduction to Natural Language Syntax and Parsing

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Session Content

Session 1: Course Intro, Morphosyntax
Session 2: Discussion of annotation task 1. PoS sequence labelling
Session 3: Debate 1 (PoS tags). Consitiuency, heads and PS-grammar
Session 4: Discussion of annotation task 2. PCFGs and CKY
Session 5: Debate 2 (Consituency). Arguments, adjuncts and long distance dependencies
Session 6: Discussion of annotation task 3. Dependency Grammar
Session 7: Debate 3 (Universal Dependencies). Dependency Parsing
Session 8: Discussion of annotation task 4. Categorial Grammars I
Session 9: Debate 4 (CCG vs Dep grammar). Categorial Grammars II
Session 10: Parsing efficiency
Session 11: Debate 5 (NLP tech). N-best parsing
Session 12: N-best parsing and parsing accuracy
Session 13: Debate 6 (NLP evaluation). Parser accuracy and evaluation
Session 14: Discussion of assessed practical exercise. Parsing evaluation
Session 15: Features and Unification
Session 16: Semantic Parsing

Non-assessed self study tasks

Session 1: Annotation task 1: POS tags. Prepare this for session 2
Session 2:
Session 3: Annotation task 2: NPs. Prepare this for session 4
Session 4:
Session 5: Annotation task 3: PS trees. Prepare this for session 6
Session 6:
Session 7: Annotation task 4: Dependencies. Prepare this for session 8
Session 8: Grammar exercise for during class
Session 9:
Session 10: Parsing exercise for during class
Session 11: Parsing exercise for during class
Session 12: Parsing exercise for during class
Session 13:
Session 14:
Session 15:
Session 16: Parsing exercise for during class

Useful Links

Ted Briscoe's Technical Report on the RASP Parser

Penn Treebank tagging manual (Santorini 1990)