Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
Introduction
NLP Psycholinguistics
Biolinguistics
Language learning
Artificial intelligence
Damage to Broca's Area
Damage to Broca's area is called Broca's
asphasia.
A person suffering damage will likely
exhibit problems like words not coming
out properly formed, slowed or slurred
speech, prevention of producing words,
and possibility of not being able to
comprehend language.
Damage to Wernicke's area
known as Wenicke's aphasia would
result in people suffering from the loss
of ability to comprehend language, and
also the ability to speak words clearly;
the inability to properly put them
together.
the words would be out of order and
would make no sense.
NLP and AI
In computer science, NLP is an
interdisciplinary field;
The goal of this new field is to get computers
to perform useful tasks involving human
language, tasks like enabling human-machine
communication, improving human-human
communication, or simply doing useful
processing of text or speech.
(Daniel Jurafsky and James Martin, 2000)
NLP and AI
Computer tasks involving NLP:
programming knowledge;
knowledge about how natural
languages work (human NLP);
knowledge about language itself;
Computational linguistics
a new branch of linguistics (language
study);
aims to start from the study of natural
languages in order to create the
machinery needed for a non-human
agent to exhibit various forms of
linguistic behaviour;
Conversational agent?
Yes No Cancel
Conversational agents?
Commander Data, engage!
Whats going on in Datas mind?
I/ can / fish/.
Tagging
PVN
P aux V
NLP - step 2
Morphological analysis: stem +
affixes/inflection
Stored forms
{fish, fishes, fished}
Rule + irregular forms
NLP step 3
Syntactic analysis parsing
Application of linguistic rules for how words combine
VP [VERB]
VP [AUXILIARY VERB]
VP [VERB NP]
VP [AUXILIARY VERB NP]
NP [DETERMINER NOUN]
NP [NOUN]
NP [PRONOUN]
Context-free grammars
Composition rules (terminals):
NP VP
I can fish
Parse tree 2
NP VB
Pronoun Verb NP
I can fish
Disambiguation
Unification = adding rules to the syntactic
parser; unification-based grammar;
Learning patterns; Corpus
analysis
Statistical analysis; tools
Semantic disambiguation;
Discourse disambiguation (register analysis)
NLP Step 4
Semantic analysis:
Compositionality
VP [Aux V]
V.meaning)
Syntactic + semantic +???
I can fish = Eu stiu sa pescuiesc
NP VP
I can fish
Linguistic knowledge involved
in NLP