Credits: 5
Schedule: 09.01.2019 - 10.04.2019
Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):
Course assistant Stig-Arne Grönroos in room F407, 4th floor of Otakaari 3. Arrange a meeting time in advance by email stig-arne.gronroos@aalto.fi
Teaching Period (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
III-IV 2018 – 2019, 2019 – 2020 (spring)
Learning Outcomes (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
After attending the course, the student knows how statistical and adaptive methods are used in information retrieval, machine translation, text mining, speech processing and related areas to process natural language contents. Furthermore, the student can apply the basic methods and techniques used for statistical natural language modeling including, for instance, clustering, classification, Hidden markov models and Bayesian models.
Content (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
Many core applications in modern information society such as search engines, social media, machine translation, speech processing and text mining for business intelligence apply statistical and adaptive methods. This course provides information on these methods and teaches basic skills on how they are applied on natural language data. Each topic is handled by a high level expert in the area.
Assessment Methods and Criteria (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
Examination and exercise work.
Workload (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
Lectures and excercise sessions approximately 30 h
Independent work approximately 103 h
Total 133 h
Attendance in some contact teaching may be compulsory
Study Material (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
C. Manning, H. Schütze, 1999. Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing. The MIT Press; Lecture notes.
Substitutes for Courses (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
T-61.5020 Statistical Natural Language Processing P
Course Homepage (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/search.php?search=ELEC-E5550
Prerequisites (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
Basic mathematics and probability courses.
Grading Scale (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
0...5
Registration for Courses (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
In WebOodi
Further Information (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
Language class 3: English