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Introduction To NLP

This document introduces natural language processing (NLP) and provides examples of its applications. NLP is the application of computational techniques to analyze human language in both written and spoken form. Some common NLP applications discussed are question answering, information extraction, sentiment analysis, machine translation, text classification, part-of-speech tagging, word sense disambiguation, text summarization, and co-reference resolution. The document also notes some of the challenges of NLP, including ambiguity, segmentation issues, non-standard language usage, neologisms, and idioms.

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Introduction To NLP

This document introduces natural language processing (NLP) and provides examples of its applications. NLP is the application of computational techniques to analyze human language in both written and spoken form. Some common NLP applications discussed are question answering, information extraction, sentiment analysis, machine translation, text classification, part-of-speech tagging, word sense disambiguation, text summarization, and co-reference resolution. The document also notes some of the challenges of NLP, including ambiguity, segmentation issues, non-standard language usage, neologisms, and idioms.

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INTRODUCTION

TO NLP
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Instructor: Hamed Abdelhaq

Special Topics - NLP 1


What is Natural Language Processing

■ The application of computational techniques to the analysis of natural language and


speech.
– Natural languages: English, Arabic, Chinese etc.
– Human-computer interaction.

■ The use of computers to process written and spoken language for some practical and
useful purposes and applications.

Special Topics - NLP 2


Applications on NLP

■ Question answering:
– trying to use computers to answer textual questions

“What currency is used in USA?” ??

“What is the longest river in the


world?” ??

Special Topics - NLP 3


Applications on NLP

■ Information Extraction:

event: budget
Subject: budget meeting
Date: Feb. 20, 2017 meeting
To: someone@gmail.com Date: Feb. 21, 2017
_____________________________________ Start time: 9:00
Hi Ahmed, End time: 11:30
We have scheduled the next budget meeting. It will Location: hall
be in hall G1010 tomorrow from 9:00 –11:30 G1010
Sender name: Tariq
regards,
Receiver name: Ahmed
Tariq
Email: someone@gmail.com

Special Topics - NLP 4


Applications on NLP

■ Sentiment Analysis:
– the attitude of a speaker or a writer with respect to some topic.
– Useful for marketing and customer services.

Item: Laptop • Review 1: affordable laptop


Attributes:
• Price • Review 2: expensive laptop
• Performance
• Review 3: The previous version is more
expensive than this one

Special Topics - NLP 5


Applications on NLP

■ Machine translation (MT)


– Converting text from one language to another.

■ Text classification, e.g., spam email detection.

■ Part-of-speech (POS) tagging.


– “nice ideas come suddenly”
– nice: adj/ ideas: noun/ come: verb/ suddenly: adv

■ Word sense Disambiguation (WSD)


– “I bought a new mouse for my laptop”

Special Topics - NLP 6


Applications on NLP
■ Text Summarization:

Gold is up and housing


prices rose and restaurants Economy is fine
are working 11pm

■ Co-reference resolution:
– “Sami told Hani he should not cheat in the exam.”
■ he refers to Hani or Sami????

Special Topics - NLP 7


NLP is Hard
■ NLP Challenges:
4. Neologisms.
1. Ambiguity is pervasive.
“Unfriend”
■ “Fed raises interest rates”. Which is the verb “raises” or “Retweet”
“interest”?
2. Segmentation issues. 5. Idioms
■ The New York-New Haven Railroad “days are flying”
– [The] [New] [York-New] [Haven] [Railroad] “get cold feet”
– [The] [New York]-[New Haven] [Railroad]

3. Non-standard English
■ Twitter status: “gr8 job john, youve a good jop in contest
#acm2016 ”

Special Topics - NLP 8

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