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Curriculum - COMP348 - Intelligent Text Processing

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Short Description

COMP348 explores the issues involved in building significant natural-language processing applications focusing on the concepts and techniques required in order to process real natural-language text.

Assumed knowledge

  1. A basic knowledge of Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications and techniques. (COMP248)
  2. Basic programming skills. (COMP248)

Learning outcomes

  1. A basic understanding of the range of applications that require intelligent text processing.
  2. An understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of shallow and deep techniques for the processing of written text.
  3. An understanding of a variety of shallow and corpus-based approaches to NLP.
  4. Ability to use Perl for intelligent text processing.
  5. An understanding of the main techniques involved in information retrieval systems.
  6. Practical ability in implementing a simple document summarisation system.
  7. Practical ability in implementing a real information extraction application.
  8. An understanding of the different general approaches to machine translation.

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