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Learn advanced computational linguistics techniques for modeling text structure in this hour-long lecture by MIT's Regina Barzilay, delivered at Johns Hopkins University's Center for Speech and Language Processing. Explore cutting-edge approaches to understanding and representing the organizational patterns within written text, examining how machine learning methods can be applied to capture hierarchical relationships, discourse structures, and semantic coherence in natural language documents. Discover the theoretical foundations and practical applications of text structure modeling, including methods for automatically identifying paragraph boundaries, topic segmentation, and document organization patterns that are essential for natural language processing tasks such as summarization, information extraction, and text generation.
Syllabus
Regina Barzilay: Learning to Model Text Structure
Taught by
Center for Language & Speech Processing(CLSP), JHU