Natural Language Processing and eLearning

Lecturers

Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
Dr. Torsten Zesch

Practice Class

Organization: Daniel Bär and Nicolai Erbs (office hour: Mon, 15:00 – 16:00, please register by mail)

Organization

Lecture: Tue, 9:50 – 11:30, Room S2|02|D017
Practice class: Wed, 9:50 – 11:30, Room S2|02|D017
Additional programming hands-on: Thu, 11:30 – 13:00, Room S2|02|D017

The learning material is available from the Moodle eLearning platform.

The required passcode will be distributed during the lecture.

Course Content

The lecture will deal with the following topics:

Introduction to NLP
Discourse & Dialogue
Tutoring Systems
Automatic generation of exercises
Reading Assistance
Writing Assistance
Assessment of Learner Generated Discourse
Plagiarism Detection
Keyphrase Extraction
Link Discovery
Automatic Structure Discovery (TOCs, Concept Maps, Headline Generation)

Literature

Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin. Speech and Language Processing. An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition. Second Edition. Prentice Hall, 2000.
Kai-Uwe Carstensen, Christian Ebert, Cornelia Endriss, Susanne Jekat, Ralf Klabunde. Computerlinguistik und Sprachtechnologie. Eine Einführung. Second Edition. Spektrum-Verlag, 2004.