Introduction to
Computational Linguistics
PRRESENTED BY: BIJNESHWOR SHRESTHA
CONTENT
 CONCEPT OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
 LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
 NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
 LEARNING A LANGUAGE BY COMPUTER!!!
 EXPECTION FROM COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS FOR FUTURE
 CONCLUSION
 QUERIES
CONCEPT OF COMPUTATIONAL
LINGUISTICS
 Computers will be able to process natural human
languages
 Creation of natural language processing algorithms and
programs
 Idea originated around 1950’s in US
 To translate Russian scientific journal to English
 Project was unsuccessful
 However this concept is possible in today’s technological
world
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
 Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics
 Mother Tongue
 From mother
 Listening and Imitating
 Foreign or second language
 Learning after or in process of maturity of brain
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
 Syntax
 Structure of sentence of the language
 Semantics
 Relation between words, phrase, signs
and symbols
 How words and their meaning changed
through the time
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
 Pragmatics
 Study of contribution of context to meaning in language
 Morphology
 Forms and formation of words in the language
 Identification, analysis and description of the structure of a the language
 Basically study of each atom of language.
LEARNING A LANGUAGE BY COMPUTER!!!
 Is it possible?
 Yes
 Practical example with pre written sets of instructions:
 Cortana
 Siri
 Go Google
LEARNING A LANGUAGE BY COMPUTER!!!
 Language translation
 Language can be translated with more or less required meaning
 Computer does not is cultureless and lacks human emotions
 Word translation
 Sentence translation
Spanish English
Amor Love, Passion
Amigo Friend, Buddy, Comrade
Casa House, Home, Household, Place, Hostel
Spanish English
perro sigue hueso Bone dog follows
Dog follows bone
EXPECTION FROM COMPUTATIONAL
LINGUISTICS FOR FUTURE
 Computers may learn natural languages as foreign
language
 Humanly conversation with computers and devices
 Computers and devices as finest language translators
CONCLUSION
 Conclude yourself please
REFRENCES
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_linguistics
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_acquisition
 https://linguistics.stanford.edu/research/computational-linguistics
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0OncH8NaqQ
 https://translate.google.com/
Introduction to computational linguistics

Introduction to computational linguistics

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    CONTENT  CONCEPT OFCOMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS  LANGUAGE ACQUISITION  NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING  LEARNING A LANGUAGE BY COMPUTER!!!  EXPECTION FROM COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS FOR FUTURE  CONCLUSION  QUERIES
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    CONCEPT OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS Computers will be able to process natural human languages  Creation of natural language processing algorithms and programs  Idea originated around 1950’s in US  To translate Russian scientific journal to English  Project was unsuccessful  However this concept is possible in today’s technological world
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    LANGUAGE ACQUISITION  Syntax,Semantics, Pragmatics  Mother Tongue  From mother  Listening and Imitating  Foreign or second language  Learning after or in process of maturity of brain
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    NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Syntax  Structure of sentence of the language  Semantics  Relation between words, phrase, signs and symbols  How words and their meaning changed through the time
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    NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Pragmatics  Study of contribution of context to meaning in language  Morphology  Forms and formation of words in the language  Identification, analysis and description of the structure of a the language  Basically study of each atom of language.
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    LEARNING A LANGUAGEBY COMPUTER!!!  Is it possible?  Yes  Practical example with pre written sets of instructions:  Cortana  Siri  Go Google
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    LEARNING A LANGUAGEBY COMPUTER!!!  Language translation  Language can be translated with more or less required meaning  Computer does not is cultureless and lacks human emotions  Word translation  Sentence translation Spanish English Amor Love, Passion Amigo Friend, Buddy, Comrade Casa House, Home, Household, Place, Hostel Spanish English perro sigue hueso Bone dog follows Dog follows bone
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    EXPECTION FROM COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICSFOR FUTURE  Computers may learn natural languages as foreign language  Humanly conversation with computers and devices  Computers and devices as finest language translators
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    REFRENCES  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_linguistics  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_acquisition https://linguistics.stanford.edu/research/computational-linguistics  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0OncH8NaqQ  https://translate.google.com/