Natural language research announcements

[Julia Hockenmaier <juliahmr AT cs.uiuc.edu>]

I'll be teaching the following advanced NLP course next semester


Parsing, machine translation and grammar induction
(CS598jhm)
Spring 2009, WF, 12:30-1:45 Siebel 1103
http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/~juliahmr/cs598/


The first part of the course will give an overview of the grammar
formalisms, statistical models, and search algorithms used in natural
language parsing and grammar induction. The second part of the course
will show how many of these ideas can be extended and applied to
machine translation.  We will also look at ways to implement and train
very large-scale NLP systems (using Hadoop, Bloom filters, etc.)

The course will consist of a mixture of lectures and seminar-style  
presentations done by students as well as a course project.

Prerequisites: Machine learning (CS446), prior exposure to NLP (one of  
CS498, LING406, CS546) or approval of the instructor.


Julia Hockenmaier