Natural Language Processing and Intelligent Search

SPRING 2016, Beihang University

Zengchang Qin

Classroom: B208, the New Main Building
 Office: New Main Building E830
Intelligent Computing and Machine Learning Lab


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PEOPLE    ANNOUCEMENTS    LECTURES   

PEOPLE

Instructor

Prof. Zengchang Qin                     zcqin AT buaa


ANNOUNCEMENTS

This course will be evaluated with assignments and projects. Violation of plagiarism rules will be failed with zero tolerance. 

The final evaluation of the course is upon the satisfaction of (1) Reading and presentation in class (2) Assignments and (3) Group projects.

Reading and Presentation: 

Assignment 1: Auto Spelling Corrector (Due Date: 06 April)          Training Data (Click here to download)   

Final Project:   


LECTURES

# Slides Reading and Teaching Materials
1 General Introduction of Computing and NLP Reference Books
 Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing (Manning and Schutze) (Internal Use Only)
Machine Learning: the Art and the Science (Peter Flach) (Internal Use Only)
Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective (Kevin Murphy) (Internal Use Only)
Contribution of Alan Turing, an article from Nature (Nature, 492, 2012)
2 Mathematical Foundations for NLP
Language Models
Lecture Note
The book: Introduction to Probability from MIT
Readings 1: Zipf's Law in Chinese, Zipf's Law in City Size
Readings 2: Entropy of English, Entropy of Chinese
3 Noisy Channel Model
Hidden Markov Model
Lecture Note
Hall of Fame of A.I, Revealing Intro. to HMM (Mark Stamp)
Readings 3: PageRank
4 HMM for Tagging
HMM Notes
Tagging Problem and HMM  (M. Collins)
5 EM and Basics of Machine Translation
Note of EM for 3-Coin Problem
Note of Basics of Machine Translation
Reading 4: Maximum Likelihood Estimation
6 PCA and Latent Semantic Analysis Lecture Note
Reading 5: Chinese Word Segmentation, Paper by Sun and Paper by Huang
Reading 6: Tutorial of PCA, PCA and SVD (Shlens)
7 Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis Lecture Note
T. Hofmann's original paper on P-LSA
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9 From TF-IDF to Information Retrieval
 
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