In this lecture, we introduce models of syntax and start with methods for predicting the syntactic structure of a sentence (i.e. syntactic parsing). We discuss challenges, classes of parsing algorithms, and start with CKY, a popular parsing method.
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Slides and required reading
Reading: Jurafsky and Martin 2nd edition, sections 12.1 - 12.5, 13.1-13.4.
Quiz 14: introduction to syntax
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