Discussion

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Discussion Tutorial 3 - NLP

• WAES3303
• rmana_at_um.edu.my

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Project

• Develop a mini NLP system
• To provide a prototype system that has
• NLP elements ( NLP-engine or NLP-interface)
• AI algorithm (searching/ induce/deduce/infer)
• or
• mimic/similar to existing system with some
  improvement
• Dictionary
• Eliza
• Translation
• Must involve programming/ system design (use
  Prolog, Java, Visual Programming)

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Possible area/topic

• Information retrieval (web, text)
• Database Interface/query
• Multi-media/ Story Teller using NLP-interface
• Mimic Eliza/ SHRDLU etc systems
• NLP Engine
• POS-tagger
• Disambiguate system
• Segmentation
• Dictionary
• English-checker
• Parser
• Meaning postulate system
• Machine Translation system

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Assessment

• Proposal 2
• System / prototype demo 15
• Manual 8
• ( Total 25)
• Submission Demo
• 3rd 4th week February

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Tutorial Exercise

• Syntactic Analysis
• Parse using Top-down technique the given CFG
  grammar
• The old man cried

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Project Proposal Discussion

• TQ