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AD-802 (A) RGPV B.Tech

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

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Syllabus units

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Unit 1 Introduction 6 topics
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP): Definition and scope
  • Applications in various domains
  • Challenges and limitations
  • NLP tasks in syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
  • Different Data Models such as Boolean Model, Vector model, Probabilistic Model
  • Comparison of classical NLP models: Rule‑based model, Statistical model, Information retrieval model, Rule‑based machine translation model, Probabilistic Graphical model
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Unit 2 Linguistics and Morphology 5 topics
  • Linguistic essentials: Phonetics and Phonology
  • Morphology: Morphens, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Semiotics, Discourse Analysis, Psycholinguistics, Corpus Linguistics
  • Word Formation Processes
  • Morphological analysis
  • Morphological Finite State Transducers
Unit 2 notes
Unit 3 Word Level Analysis 12 topics
  • Tokenization
  • Part‑of‑Speech Tagging (POS Tagging)
  • Lemmatization
  • Stemming
  • Named Entity Recognition (NER)
  • Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD)
  • Word Embedding
  • Types of POS Tagging: Rule‑based, Stochastic, Transformation‑based, Lexical
  • Hidden Markov Model and Maximum Entropy model
  • n‑grams
  • Collocations
  • Applications of NER
Unit 3 notes
Unit 4 Syntax Analysis 5 topics
  • Grammatical Formalisms: Context Free Grammars (CFG)
  • Grammar rules for English
  • Syntactic parsing: Grammar formalisms and treebanks
  • Efficient parsing for context‑free grammars (CFGs)
  • Statistical parsing and probabilistic CFGs (PCFGs)
Unit 4 notes
Unit 5 Semantic Analysis 8 topics
  • Requirements for representation
  • First‑Order Logic
  • Description Logics
  • Syntax‑Driven Semantic analysis
  • Semantic attachments
  • Word senses, relations between senses, thematic roles, selectional restrictions
  • Word‑sense disambiguation (WSD) using supervised, dictionary and thesaurus methods
  • Applications of WSD
Unit 5 notes
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