Course

CS-431: Introduction to natural language processing

Summary

The objective of this course is to present the main models, formalisms and algorithms necessary for the development of applications in the field of natural language information processing. The concepts introduced during the lectures will be applied during practical sessions.

Lectures

Instructors (3)

Martin Rajman

Martin Rajman is the Executive Director of Nano-tera.ch , a large Swiss Research Program funding collaborative multi-disciplinary projects for the engineering of complex systems in Health and the Environment. Since 2008, the Nano-Tera.ch program started more than 100 research projects for a total public funding of more than 95 Mo CHF (~100 Mo USD). Before being appointed as Nano-Tera.ch Executive Director, Martin Rajman was Director of the EPFL Global Computing Center (CGC), an association of research groups and laboratories of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences fostering interdisciplinary research in the general area of internet computing and distributed information systems. In this position, he was managing more than 20 European projects. In parallel with his research management activities, Martin Rajman is senior researcher at EPF Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL). His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics and Data-driven Probabilistic Machine Learning. Previously, he was senior researcher at the Computer Science Department of Telecom Paris-Tech, where he was in charge of the development of a research and teaching activity in the domain of Natural Language Processing. Martin Rajman is also active in various large scale industry-research collaborations with majors economic players. In particular, he has been involved in the improvement of the product ranking technology used by e-Bay and is currently collaborating with Elsevier on enhanced article recommendation techniques. Martin Rajman is author or co-author of more than 100 publications and former Director of the Computer Science Series of EPFL-Press (PPUR).

Jean-Cédric Chappelier

Jean-Cédric Chappelier is currently senior researcher and lecturer in Computational Linguistics at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland). He holds an Ms.Sci. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris (France).

Antoine Bosselut

Antoine Bosselut is an assistant professor at EPFL. He leads the EPFL NLP group, which conducts research on natural language processing (NLP) systems that can model, represent, and reason about human and world knowledge. Prior to joining EPFL, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University working in the SNAP and NLP groups and a young investigator on the Mosaic project at the Allen Institute for AI . He completed his PhD at the University of Washington.

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