Natural Language Processing

NLP is a large and multidisciplinary field, so this course can only provide a very general introduction. The first chapter is designed to give an overview of the main subareas and a very brief idea of the main applications and the methodologies which have been employed. The history of NLP is briefly discussed as a way of putting this into perspective. The next three chapters describe some of the main subareas in more detail. The organisation is roughly based on increased 'depth' of processi...