1. B-KUL-H02B1A Natural Language Processing Taught by: Marie-Francine Moens Vincent Vandeghinste Lectures and exercises 2nd semester 4 study points

2. 1968: Stanley Kubrick’s movie: 2001: a space odyssey: HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer): artificial agent who speaks and understands English [IMDB] Dream coming closer ! 2

3. [ Arg1 Sales] fell [ Arg4 to $251.2 million] [ Arg3 from $278.7 million]. [ Arg1 The average junk bond] fell [ Arg2 by 3.7%]. E.g., probabilistic parsing and tagging, sentence understanding, grammar induction, word sense disambiguation,... 3

4. Vogel & Jurafsky ACL 2010 E.g., temporal information processing, spatial information processing, alignment algorithms, machine translation,... 4

5. Prerequisites: –Knowledge of standard concepts in artificial intelligence –Basic familiarity with logic, probability theory and vector spaces Evaluation: –Open book written exam featuring a mixture of theory and exercise questions 5