NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

SUMMARY

The Natural Language Processing course will focus on the development of tools to process texts in natural language. While most examples and tools will be presented with emphasis to the Portuguese language, the concepts are language independent and can be applied to other languages. The main goals of the course is for the participants to understand the different tasks of processing text, to extract information and perform reasoning on it. Classes will be mainly hand-ons, using freely available tools applied to specific contexts. Participants will be evaluated by a practical project.

SYLLABUS

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1. INTRODUCTION TO NLP

• Areas of actuation

• Resources (Lexicon and Corpora)

• NLP stack, from words to semantics

2. MORPHOSYNTACTIC ANALYSIS

• Morphological Analysis (Stemming, Affix rules)

• Language Models

• Syntactic Analysis

  •  Sequence Processing

  • Constraint grammars

  • Shallow Parsing

  • Dependency Parsing

• Pratical Applications

3. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

• Representation of Sentence Meaning

• Lexical Semantics & Lexical Resources

• Vector Semantics & Word Embeddings

• Pratical Application

PROGRAM COORDINATOR

Prof. Daniel Miranda

2Ai - Applied Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

IPCA - Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave

Email: adcourses@ipca.pt

COURSE COORDINATOR

Prof. Alberto Simões

2Ai - Applied Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

IPCA - Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave

TEACHING STAFF

• Alberto Simões (2Ai, IPCA)

• José João Almeida (University of Minho)

• Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira (University of Coimbra)

• António Teixeira (University of Aveiro)

• Mário Rodrigues (University of Aveiro)

PREREQUISITES

• Basic knowledge of computer programming (Python is recommended).

• Basic knowledge of algebra and probabilities.

• A laptop with Linux, MacOS, or Windows with Ubuntu Shell (or you can use the institution hardware).

TARGET AUDIENCE

• Industry/enterprises/business professionals

• Academic staff

• Researchers

• Graduates and postgraduate students

REGISTRATION

Registration (Procedure):

To register, please fill out the registration form. After submitting the registration, immediately, you will receive a first email with confirmation. After this, you will receive a second email with payment details for the payment. Please contact us if you do not receive the first email (registration confirmation) in the next 3 days. To complete the registration process, you should proceed with the payment and send the receipt to adcourses@ipca.pt. The correct indication of customer data during the payment (ex. tax identification number and other relevant information) is the sole responsibility of the participant.

The 2021 Edition of the Advanced Courses will take place from May 2021 to July 2021 in presential mode and following all health, safety, hygiene and prevention procedures and regulations provided by the Portuguese General Health Directorate (DGS) and COVID-19 Contingency Internal Plan of the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave. With the COVID-19 pandemic evolution several teaching/learning approaches adequate to the pandemic context may be applied to the Advanced Courses.  If other teaching/learning approach is implemented on the Advanced Courses (different from the presential mode) the registered participants will be previously informed.

REGISTRATION FORM (Click here)

Registration deadline: 15^th April, 2021

Minimum/Maximum number of participants: 8-20

Fee: 350,00 EUR

The Fee includes all the necessary materials for the course, certificate of attendance, gala dinner and social programme. Non-refundable registration fees.

School of Technology (EST)
Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (IPCA)
Campus do IPCA
4750-810 Barcelos
Phone: +351 253 80 22 60
Email: adcourses@ipca.pt

VENUE

Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (IPCA)

The Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (IPCA) is a Portuguese public institution of higher education, located in Barcelos, Portugal. IPCA was founded in 1994 with the objective of offering an optional source of higher education to the population from the district of Braga. The creation of a polytechnic institution of higher education is considered the answer to the local economic and social needs. Thus, being its educational model focused on practice, IPCA aims to instruct professionals with adequate qualifications for the labor market. Its success is evidenced by a high employment rate of its students and a high number of applications for IPCA courses. 

City of Barcelos

Barcelos is a city and a municipality in Braga District in the Minho Province, in the north of Portugal. The population in 2011 was 120,391 in an area of 378.90 km2. With 60 parishes, it is the municipality with the highest number of parishes in the country. It is one of the growing municipalities in the country, and is well known by its textile and clay industries. Barcelos is part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network as a Crafts and Folk Art City. The town's famous symbol is a rooster, in Portuguese called o Galo de Barcelos ("the Rooster of Barcelos").

Municipality of Barcelos Website (Click here)

ACCOMMODATION

TRAVEL

* By Car (Starting from Oporto Airport):
- Leave the Airport and take the Highway A41;
- Exit number 1 to Highway A28, direction Viana do Castelo/Vila do Conde;
- Exit number 18 to Highway A11, direction Braga/Barcelos;
- Exit number 3 to take the Route N103, direction Barcelos;
- Take the exit signposted IPCA Campus. You have arrived at your destination!

* By Train (Starting from Oporto Airport):
- At the Airport you can find the subway station. Take the violet subway line towards Porto-Campanhã;
- At the station Porto-Campanhã take Regional/InterRegional trains toward Barcelos. (Advisable);
- Barcelos train station is 2 km away from the IPCA. At the train station, you can find taxis that you can use to reach the IPCA Campus.