(0) Cover
(1) Course Logistics
(2) Questions that today's class will answer
(3) What is Natural Language Processing?
(4) Alternative Views on NLP
(5) NLP Applications: Machine Translation with Babel Fish
(6) MIT Translation System
(7) NLP Applications: Text Summarization
(8) NLP Applications: Dialogue Systems
(9) A newer example (ATIS)
(10) Other NLP Applications
(11) Why is NLP Hard?
(12) Ambiguity
(13) Ambiguity at Many Levels
(14) Ambiguity at Many Levels
(15) More Syntactic Ambiguity
(16) Ambiguity at Many Levels
(17) More Word Sense Ambiguity
(18) Ambiguity at Many Levels
(19) Knowledge Bottleneck in NLP
(20) Case study: Determiner Placement
(21) Relevant Grammar Rules
(22) Symbolic Approach: Determiner Placement
(23) Statistical Approach: Determiner Placement
(24) Does it work?
(25) Determiner Placement as Classification
(26) Classification Approach
(27) Beyond Classification
(28) Mapping in Machine Translation
(29) Example: Machine Translation
(30) Learning for MT
(31) What will this Course be about?
(32) Syllabus
(33) Prerequisites
(34) Assessment
(35) Summary


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