Topics include:
- Linguistic Concepts:
- Morphology.
- Parts of Speech.
- Chunks and Phrases.
- Named Entities.
- Syntax and Grammars.
- Anaphora.
- Tasks:
- Part-of-speech tagging.
- Entity recognition.
- Sequence segmentation.
- Information extraction.
- Syntactic Parsing.
- Coreference resolution
- Sentiment and Opinion Mining.
- Methods and Algorithms:
- Maximum Likelihood Estimation
- Hidden Markov Models and Viterbi
- Discriminative Multi-class Classification
- Discriminative Structured Classification
- BIO-tagging
- PCFG and CKY
- Reranking
- Language-oriented feature design
- Distributional similarity and word embeddings
- A brief intro to neural-network based models
- Topic Modeling