Computer grammars of natural language, parsing, treatment of ambiguity, lexical categories, semantic representation, relation of grammatical structure to information structure in technical sublanguages, mapping free text onto sublanguage information formats. Readings from the literature, computer assignments, and projects.
Advanced Textual Information Processing G22.2581 Prerequisite: G22.2580. 3 points.
Ongoing work in information formatting of free-text. Processing records, reports, and scientific literature in medicine and other technical fields. Treatment of fragmentary sentence input and question forms; methods of developing the lexicon and information structures for a sublanguage; adapting a database for retrieval from processed narrative. Student projects. Discussion and readings.
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