NLP

why you would like to learn this course?

• NLP involves resolving ambiguity at all levels, and
• reasoning with world and linguistic knowledge

Phonology: the study of patterns of speech sounds.

• problem for speech synthesis (same word different pronouncation) and recognition (same pronouncation different word)
• resolution with syntax

"people who ask the question control the conversation"

outline

• introduction, lexical distributions, language modelling, lexical embeddings
• features and classification
• entropy and information theory
• neural language models
• machine translation
• large language models
• acoustics and signal processing
• automatic speech recognition