COMP.5420 Natural Language Processing (Formerly 91.442 & 91.542)

Id: 038884 Credits Min: 3 Credits Max: 3 Description

This course introduces principles and techniques behind Natural Language Processing (NLP), and covers a large selection of important automatic text processing tasks. Selected topics include n-gram language models, part-of-speech tagging, statistical parsing, word sense disambiguation, discourse segmentation, information extraction, sentiment analysis, machine translation. Quantitative techniques are emphasized, with a focus on applying statistical models to large collections of text. The course provides students with a hands-on experience in building a substantial NLP application of their choice.

Prerequisites

91.422 Machine Learning.

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Natural Language Processing

Your hands are filthy from working on your latest project and you need to run the water to wash them. But you don't want to get the taps filthy too. Wouldn't it be nice if you could just tell them to turn on hot, or cold? Or if the water's too cold, you could tell them to make it warmer. [Vije Miller] did just that, he added servo motors to his kitchen tap and enlisted an AI to interpret his voice commands.

Look closely at the photo and you can guess that he started with a single-lever type of tap, the kind which can be worked with an elbow, so this project was probably just for fun and judging by his video below, he does have a sense of humor. But the idea is practical for dual taps with rotating knobs. He did realize, however, that in future versions he should move the servo motor openings from the top plate to the bottom instead, to avoid any water getting in. A NodeMCU ESP8266 ESP-12E board serves for communicating with the speech recognition side but other than the name, JacobAI, he's keeping the speech part to himself. We secretly suspect that he has a friend named Jacob.

However, we can think of a number of options for it such as DeepSpeech and Wit.Ai which we covered when talking about Natural Language phone bots, and the ubiquitous Alexa as used here with another NodeMCU for turning on Christmas tree lights.

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