In this post, you can find the links to the free online course on Natural Language that Professor Dan Jurafsky & Chris Manning offered on Coursera in 2012. It was a very successful and well-designed course. It is an ideal…
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Course: Probability and Statistics for Language Technology
Uppsala University – Department of Linguistics and Philology Topics: elementary concepts in probability theory, such as unconditional and conditional probability, Bayes’ theorem, and the law of total probability; elementary concepts in statistics such as sample, estimation, and hypothesis testing.
Course Start: Semantic Analysis in Language Technology
Spring 2016 Semantic Analysis in Language Technology at Uppsala University (Sweden) http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~santinim/sais/2016/sais_2016.htm Topics: Semantics and Computational Semantics Semantic Role Labelling/Predicate-Argument Structure Sentiment Analysis Word Sense Disambiguation Vector Semantics Information Extraction (I & II) Question Answering (I & II) Ontologies and…
Course: Semantic Analysis in Language Technology
Uppsala University: Department of Linguistics and Philology Semantic Analysis in Language Technology (2013) Credits: 7,5 hp Syllabus: 5LN456 Teacher: Marina Santini The course website will be update regularly during the teaching session with additional material. Last Updated:…
Seminar – Towards Contextualized Information: How Automatic Genre Identification Can Help
Seminar Series Laboratory for Cognition, Interaction and Language Technology (CILTLab) Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Tuesday 28 August 2012 Abstract: Genre is one of the textual dimensions that can be used to reconstruct the communicative context needed to assess the value…
Free Online Course: Agile development method for Software as a Service (SaaS) using Ruby on Rails
Software Engineering for SaaS https://www.coursera.org/course/saas Start: May 18 2012 This course teaches the engineering fundamentals for long-lived software using the highly-productive Agile development method for Software as a Service (SaaS) using Ruby on Rails. Twelve principles underlie the Agile Manifesto,…
Online Course: Social Network Analysis
An interesting online course is offred for free by Coursera through University of Michigan in September 2012: Social Network Analysis “This course will use social network analysis, both its theory and computational tools, to make sense of the social and…
Collaborative Blogging
Would you like to publish a signed post (e.g. a book review or a conference announcement) or start a discussion on our favourite topics? We would like to know more about your experiments with Content Discovery, Text Analytics, Topic Detection,…
HERMES: A new Twitter Corpus
The new Twitter corpus, HERMES, is now available. It’s about 100 million words. There are also JSON files with metadata. It was created by Michele Zappavigna, University of Sidney Here is her webpage http://sydney.edu.au/arts/linguistics/staff/academic_staff/michele_zappavigna.shtml Contact her for more information about how to get…
CLT seminar (University of Gothenburg): 2011-06-16, 10:15 – 12:00
Marina Santini – Computational Models for Automatic Web Genre Identification http://www.clt.gu.se/seminar/2011-06-16/clt-seminar-marina-santini Date: 2011-06-16 10:15 – 12:00 Where: L308, Lennart Torstenssonsgatan 8 Broadly speaking, “genre” is a classification concept. A genre is a recurring and recognized pattern of communication that has…