Course Information
SemesterCourse Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleT+P+LCreditNumber of ECTS CreditsLast Updated Date
1AIN440Introduction to Natural Language Processing3+0+03612.08.2025

 
Course Details
Language of Instruction English
Level of Course Unit Bachelor's Degree
Department / Program ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINEERING
Type of Program Formal Education
Type of Course Unit Elective
Course Delivery Method Face To Face
Objectives of the Course To form a basis for Natural Language Processing in order to prepare the student for advanced Natural Language Processing that will be taught as a graduate course.
Course Content Introduction to natural language processing
Morphological analysis
Part-of-speech tagging
Parsing algorithms
Semantic analysis
Natural language processing applications
Introduction to Deep Learning
Course Methods and Techniques Lectures, Question and Answer, Discussion
Prerequisites and co-requisities ( BBM102 ) and ( BBM104 ) and ( AIN442 )
Course Coordinator None
Name of Lecturers Prof. Ebru Akçapınar Sezer
Assistants None
Work Placement(s) No

Recommended or Required Reading
Resources Daniel Jurafsky, and James H. Martin, "Speech and Language Processing" 2018. James Allen, "Natural Language Understanding", Second edition, The Benjamin/Cumings Publishing Company Inc., 1995. Christopher D. Manning, and Hinrich Schutze, "Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing",The MIT Press, 1999.
Course Notes Daniel Jurafsky, and James H. Martin, "Speech and Language Processing", 2018.
James Allen, "Natural Language Understanding", Second edition, The Benjamin/Cumings Publishing Company Inc., 1995.
Christopher D. Manning, and Hinrich Schutze, "Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing", The MIT Press, 1999.


Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Activities are given in detail in the section of "Assessment Methods and Criteria" and "Workload Calculation"

Assessment Methods and Criteria
In-Term Studies Quantity Percentage
Midterm Exam 2 % 55
Attendance 14 % 5
Final examination 1 % 40
Total
17
% 100

 
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration Total Work Load
Course Duration 14 3 42
Hours for off-the-c.r.stud 12 6 72
Preparation for Midterm Exam 2 14 28
General Exam Preparation 1 12 12
Total Work Load   Number of ECTS Credits 5,13333333333333 154

 
Course Learning Outcomes: Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
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1 The student will gain general knowledge about natural language processing subfields, the student will have a general understanding about part-of-speech-tagging, morphological analysis, parsing algorithms, semantic analysis, the student will have a basis f
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Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTopicsStudy MaterialsMaterials
1 Introduction to Natural Language Processing
2 Language Models and N-grams
3 Regular Expressions and Finite State Automata
4 Hidden Markov Models and Part-of-Speech Tagging
5 Midterm I
6 Context Free Grammars and Parsing Algorithms
7 Semantics (Lexical, compositional semantics, word sense disambiguation)
8 Introduction to Deep Learning
9 Word embeddings
10 Computation Graphs
11 Midterm
12 Recurrent Neural Networks and Language Modelling
13 Encoder-decoder models and Machine Traslation
14 Other Application Fields
15 Preparation for Final Exam
16 Final Exam

 
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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All 3 4 2 3 3 1 2 1 2 5 5 3
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  Contribution: 1: Very Slight 2:Slight 3:Moderate 4:Significant 5:Very Significant

  
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