Text Processing

Instructor: Chakravarthy Bhagvati
Class Timings: Tuesday 5:00-6:00 PM, Wednesday 4:00-6:00 PM (R7 LHC)

Syllabus

I. Text Representation [July 21 - 27]

ASCII Represenation
UNICODE Represenation
ISCII (for Indian Scripts)

II. Low Level Text Processing [July 28 - August 18]

Searching
Comparision
String Matching
Similarity Between Strings
Dictionary

III. Information Retrieval [August 18 - (Still continuing)]

Defnitions (Document Unit, Token, Stop words, Term, etc)
Tokenization
Single Word Query, Phrase Query
Scoring (Word Level, and Document Level)
Syllabus Will be Added as classes commences

IV. Advances in Text Processing

Syllabus will be Added as classes commences

Subject Material and Links

Handbook of String Matching Algorithms(pdf file)
Information Retrieval Book(Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schutze)
Hovy and Marcu's Presentation at ACL 1998
SIGIR Tutorial and ACL Tutorial containing material for text summarization and abstraction; also, evaluation of text summaries.
An Overview of Automated Essay Grading Systems
Author Identification System
Question Answer Systems

Assignments and Minors

Assignment - 1: String Matching Algorithms
To be given on [Date will be Updated] . Due [Date will be Updated]
Minor - 1: Information Retrieval
Date: [Date will be updated]
Assignment - 2: Advances in Text Processing
To be given on [Date will be updated]. Due [Date will be updated]

Note: Dates are only indicative and may change