Introduction
- The course will be more introductory
- More focus on linguistics
What is NLP?
The study of computational treatment of natural language(human language).
Modern Applications
- Search engines
- Question answering
- Natural language assistant
- Translation systems
- News digest
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Notes
- Computers are confused by natural language, and many knowledges are needed
Language and Communication
- Speaker
- Intention(goals, beliefs…)
- Generation(tactical)
- Synthesis(text or speech)
- Listener
- Perception
- Interpretation(syntactic, semantic, pragmatic)
- Incorporation(understanding)
- Both
- Context