Syllabus
1. Sets of morphosyntactic tags, definition of problems, parts of speech.
2. Supervised and unsupervised morphemic segmentation, Chinese word segmentation.
3. Finite-state (two-level) morphology.
4. Context-free grammars and chart parser, usage for morphological analysis.
5. Unification grammars for morphological analysis.
6. Functional morphology.
7. Syntactic annotation, constituent trees, dependency trees, non-projectivity.
8. Universal Dependencies.
9. Dependency parsing: transition-based parsers, graph-based parsers.
Annotation
Basic methods and algorithms used for morphemic segmentation, morphological and syntactic (constituency- based, dependency-based) analysis of natural languages. We will try out some of the approaches as student mini-projects during the semester.
Credits will be awarded for work on these mini-projects.