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PL 9
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00014 Helsingin yliopisto

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Kurssin materiaalit

Textbooks

• Gerald Gazdar & Chris Mellish Natural Language Processing in Prolog
  Addison-Wesley (1989)
• Ivan Sag & Thomas Wasow Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction
  CSLI Publications (1999) - see course folder
• Daniel Jurafsky & James H. Martin Speech and Language Processing
  Prentice-Hall (2000)
• Ann Copestake Implementing Typed Feature Structure Grammars
  CSLI Publications (2002) - see course folder

Internet Resources

• Gerald Gazdar & Chris Mellish Natural Language Processing in Prolog
• Ivan Sag & Thomas Wasow Syntactic Theory Instructor's Manual
• Chris Mellish, Pete Whitelock & Graeme Ritchie Computational Syntax
• Ann Copestake et al., Information about the LKB system

Course Topics

1. Context-free grammars.
2. Top-down and bottom-up parsing.
3. Basic syntactic theory.
4. Chart parsing.
5. Feature structures and unification.
6. Syntax and semantics.
7. Type hierarchies and inheritance.
8. Typed feature structures.
9. The lexicon and lexical rules.
10. HPSG grammars.
11. Categorial grammars.
12. Algorithms for parsing and generation.

Practical work with LKB

1. Installing and running LKB.
2. Typed feature structures.
3. Grammars and parsing.
4. HPSG grammars.
5. Categorial grammars.
6. Semantics and generation.