Lugano, Switzerland
Strategic public health policy and planning: an introduction to systems thinking and modelling for evidence-based decision making
When:
18 August - 20 August 2025
Credits:
1 EC
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Computer Sciences
Natural Language Syntax: Parsing and Complexity
When:
31 July - 11 August 2023
School:
ESS in Logic, Language and Information
Institution:
University of Ljubljana
City:
Country:
Language:
English
Credits:
0.0 EC
Fee:
490 EUR
About
This course aims to provide an introduction to the fields of formal grammars and syntactic parsing, with a focus on their application to natural language. We introduce the concepts of formal language, formal grammar and automaton, and the notion of complexity reflected by the Chomsky-Schützenberger hierarchy. We present how natural language and popular syntactic formalisms fit into this picture. We review at length the evolution of parsing algorithms for natural language, from the classic chart-based paradigm to contemporary shift-reduce parsers, graph-based algorithms, and CCG parsing. We discuss the impact on the field of the advances in machine-learning and introduce some of the key aspects of neural-based parsers and in particular the use of the vector representations of linguistic units produced by language models.
Course leader
Timothée Bernard and Pascal Amsili
Target group
Students
Fee info
Fee
490 EUR, Early student registration
Fee
690 EUR, Early non-academic registration
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When:
31 July - 11 August 2023
School:
ESS in Logic, Language and Information
Institution:
University of Ljubljana
Language:
English
Credits:
0.0 EC
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