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Syntax and Structure: Foundations of Language Understanding in NLP

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Course Modules:

Module 1: What is Syntax in NLP?

Definitions: syntax vs. semantics

Why syntactic structure matters in AI

Examples of syntactic ambiguity and errors

Module 2: Part-of-Speech (POS) Tagging

Introduction to lexical categories (noun, verb, adjective, etc.)

Rule-based vs. statistical POS taggers

Using NLTK, spaCy, and Stanza for POS tagging

Module 3: Phrase Structure Grammar

Sentence constituents: noun phrases, verb phrases, etc.

Context-free grammar and tree structures

Parsing sentences into phrase trees

Module 4: Dependency Parsing

Dependency grammar vs. phrase structure

Understanding head-dependent relationships

Visualizing sentence structures with dependency graphs

Module 5: Syntax-Based NLP Applications

How syntax improves machine translation, chatbots, and text classification

Role of syntax in text generation and summarization

Syntax-aware embeddings and transformers

Module 6: Capstone Project – Syntax Analysis Pipeline

Choose a dataset (e.g., news articles, tweets, or essays)

Implement POS tagging and dependency parsing

Submit annotated outputs and visual diagrams

Tools & Technologies Used:

Python (NLTK, spaCy, Stanza)

Constituency and dependency parsers

Tree visualizers and syntax plot tools

Jupyter Notebook / Google Colab

Target Audience:

NLP learners and data scientists

Linguists exploring computational language tools

Developers working on grammar-aware applications

Students in linguistics, AI, or language technology

Global Learning Benefits:

Understand sentence grammar for advanced text analysis

Apply syntactic parsing to improve NLP model accuracy

Visualize and interpret language like a machine does

Bridge linguistic knowledge with AI implementation

 

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