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Natural Language Processing
Course Code 321-6100
Semester 7
ECTS 5.00
Hours (Theory) 3
Hours (Lab) 2
Instructor Stamatatos Efstathios
Course Content

Introduction: basic concepts, applications. Morphological analysis, text tokenization and sentence splitting. Language modeling using n-grams. Basic supervised learning methods. Deep learning architectures for classification and sequence labeling. Language modeling using neural networks. Vector semantics, word and document embeddings. Text classification and applications. Part-of-Speech tagging and named-entity recognition. Constituency grammars and parsing, stochastic parsing. Dependency parsing. Logical representations of sentence meaning. Semantic analysis.

Learning Outcomes

After successfully completing the course the students should be able to:
 
• describe the basic principles and analysis levels of natural language processing;
 
• understand and use word and document representation techniques;
 
• understand algorithms and use tools for sequence labelling;
 
• understand algorithms and use tools to perform syntactic analysis;
 
• understand algorithms and use tools to classify documents;
 
• get familiar with deep learning methods and their application to natural language processing applications. 

 

Prerequisites

Not required.

Teaching and Learning Methods

Activity Semester workload
Lectures 52 hours
Laboratory hours 26 hours
Personal study 44 hours
   
Final exams 3 hours

Assessment Methods / Grading

Course grading comes from participation in individual laboratory exercises (50%) and written exam (50%). In both cases, lab exercises and written exams, at least 5.0 out of 10 is required. Students are informed about grading policy from the beginning.

Teaching Language

Greek (English for Erasmus students)

Contact
  • President: Skoutas Dimitrios
  • Secretariat Head: Karagianni Kalliopi
  • Undergraduate Secretariat: ICS Eng. Department
  • Postgraduate Secretariat: ICS Eng. Department
  • Email: dicsd [at] aegean [dot] gr
  • Phone: 2273082000
  • Address: Κτήριο Λυμπέρη, Παλαμά 2 & Γοργύρας, Τ.Κ. 83200
  • Website: www.icsd.aegean.gr
  • Office Hours: Δευτέρα - Παρασκευή: 8:00 - 16:00
Στατιστικά Σπουδών
Μέσος Όρος Βαθμού Πτυχίου

7.76

Μέσος χρόνος Απόκτησης Πτυχίου

6.5 έτη

Μαθήματα με εργαστήριο

46

Κύκλοι Σπουδών

6

Μαθήματα Υποχρεωτικά

36

Μαθήματα Κύκλου

8

Σύνολο μαθημάτων για πτυχίο

55

Διπλωματική Εργασία

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