Introduction to Natural Language Understanding / 1: |
The Study of Language |
Applications of Natural Language Understanding |
Evaluating Language Understanding Systems |
The Different Levels of Language Analysis |
Representations and Understanding |
The Organization of Natural Language Understanding Systems |
Linguistic Background: An Outline of English Syntax / 2: |
Words |
The Elements of Simple Noun Phrases |
Verb Phrases and Simple Sentences |
Noun Phrases Revisited |
Adjective Phrases |
Adverbial Phrases |
Grammars and Parsing / 3: |
Grammars and Sentence Structure |
What Makes a Good Grammar |
A Top-Down Parser |
A Bottom-Up Chart Parser |
Top-Down Chart Parsing |
Finite State Models and Morphological Processing |
Grammars and Logic Programming |
Features and Augmented Grammars / 4: |
Feature Systems and Augmented Grammars |
Some Basic Feature Systems for English |
Morphological Analysis and the Lexicon |
A Simple Grammar Using Features |
Parsing with Features |
Augmented Transition Networks |
Definite Clause Grammars |
Generalized Feature Systems and Unification Grammars |
Grammars for Natural Language / 5: |
Auxiliary Verbs and Verb Phrases |
Movement Phenomena in Language |
Handling Questions in Context-Free Grammars |
Noun Phrases and Relative Clauses |
The Hold Mechanism in ATN |
Gap Threading |
Toward Efficient Parsing / 6: |
Human Preferences in Parsing |
Encoding Uncertainty: Shift-Reduce Parsers |
A Deterministic Parser |
Techniques for Efficient Encoding of Ambiguity |
Partial Parsing |
Ambiguity Resolution: Statistical Methods / 7: |
Basic Probability Theory |
Estimating Probabilities |
Part-of-Speech Tagging |
Obtaining Lexical Probabilities |
Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars |
Best-First Parsing |
A Simple Context-Dependent Best-First Parser |
Semantics and Logical Form / 8: |
Introduction to Natural Language Understanding / 1: |
The Study of Language |
Applications of Natural Language Understanding |