2009 Course Handbook
COMP348: Document Processing and the Semantic Web
This unit explores the issues involved in building natural language processing (NLP) applications that operate on large bodies of real text such as are found on the World Wide Web (WWW).
We discuss the core design of web search engines and the techniques being developed to make these better. The unit explores the emerging semantic web technologies which support the exchange of XML metadata on the web, allowing the development of intelligent agents. Application areas covered include information retrieval, web search, document summarisation, machine translation and information extraction.
The unit focuses on the concepts and techniques required to process real natural-language text. Students gain practical experience in using the Python programming language to develop language-processing systems.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| Contact Hours: | -- |
| When Offered: | D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year |
| Staff Contact: | Computing Staff |
| Prerequisites: | 40cp and COMP249(P) |
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| Unit Designations: | Science |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of Computing |
Timetable Information
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