11-714 Tools for NLP

6 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course is designed as a handson lab to help students interested in NLP build their own compendium of the opensource tools and resources available online. Ideally taken in the first semester, the course focuses on one basic topic every two weeks, during which each student will download, install, and play with two or three packages, tools, or resources, and compare notes. The endofsemester assignment will be to compose some of the tools into a system that does something interesting. We will cover a range, from the most basic tools for sentence splitting and punctuation removal through resources such as WordNet and the Penn Treebank to parsing and Information Extraction engines.

Prerequisites: none listed

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