MIT OpenCourseWare Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 6.881 Natural Language Processing, Fall 2004

The class will cover models at the level of syntactic, semantic and discourse processing. The emphasis will be on corpus-based methods and algorithms, such as Hidden Markov Models and probabilistic context free grammars. We will discuss the use of these methods and models in a variety of applications including syntactic parsing, information extraction, statistical machine translation, and summarization. File decompression software, such as Winzip or StuffIt, is required to open the .gz Postscript viewer software, such as Ghostscript/Ghostview, can be used to view the .ps