1. Revision Week John Barnden School of Computer Science University of Birmingham Natural Language Processing 1 2010/11 Semester 2

2. Aims of This Lecture Session End-of-semester evaluation forms. Nature of examination. Question and answer. NB: No lecture tomorrow unless we need more Q&A time.

3. Examination Worth 50% of module. 1.5 hours. Do 4 out of 5 questions. It will range from precise technical things to more general considerations. A part of one question will be a mini-essay on how NLP might be used in some common real-life task or situation. The exam attempts to intersect all major aspects of the module – nature of words etc., morphology, parts of speech and other lexical classifications, syntax, semantics, nature of pragmatics. You’ll need to understand algorithms and explain aspects of them, but you won’t be asked to write (pseudo)code. The exam is mainly based on my lectures and exercises, but to get all available marks you need to study the textbook sections listed on the website. My exercise notes are required reading.