Course in Natural Language Processing

Born in Athens, Greece, Yannis Haralambous studied Mathematics in Lille, France, where he obtained a Ph.D. in Algebraic Topology in 1990. Having meanwhile become a TeX aficionado, he then specialized in Digital Typography and founded the typesetting company Atelier Fluxus Virus, which is specialized in scientific and scholarly documents. In 2001, he became a Full Professor at the Computer Science Department of IMT Atlantique in Brest, France, and his research activities migrated to the disciplines of Text Mining, Controlled Natural Languages, Knowledge Representation, and Grapholinguistics. He has published more than 120 research or scientific popularization papers and a book on Fonts and Encodings (O'Reilly, 2004), has supervised 10 PhDs, teaches courses on NLP, Graph Theory and Logic, and is the organizer of the biennial conference “Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century”.

• Preface.- 1. Introduction.- Part I. Linguistics.- 2. Phonetics/Phonology.- 3. Graphetics/Graphemics.- 4. Morphemes, Words, Terms.- 5. Syntax.- 6. Semantics (and Pragmatics).- 7. Controlled Natural Languages.- Part II. Mathematical Tools.- 8. Graphs.- 9. Formal Languages.- 10. Logic.- 11.- Ontologies and Conceptual Graphs.- Part III. Data Formats.- 12. Unicode.- 13. XML, TEI, CDL.- Part IV. Statistical Methods.- 14. Counting Words.- 15. Going Neural.- 16. Hints and Expected Results for Exercises.- Acronyms.- Index.