It is an online event to learn about Computational Linguistics and discussion about applications on Pakistani languages.

Objectives:
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For Computer Science scholars:
(a) Learning  fundamental concepts of Linguistics to create more accurately annotated/tagged datasets
(b) Learning  fundamental concepts of Linguistics to effectively use available CL resources  in the application.
(c) Becoming aware of the computational resources and libraries available for CL
(d) Becoming aware of the challenges of CL for Pakistani languages  

Scholars of Linguistics can learn about
(a) Learning the computational grammar structures (how to represent morphology/grammar/semantics for computing)  
(b) Learning to create annotated datasets for computational linguistics
(c) Learning to use tools and a programming language for processing the language data  
(d) Becoming aware of the challenges of CL for Pakistani language

Topics Covered:
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Introduction to Python Programming and Libraries for Computational Linguistics
Part of Speech (PoS): Using Universal Tagset, Creating PoS Tagged Corpus, Creating PoS Tagger
Morphology: Morphological Features, Morphology for Pakistani Languages, Finite State Transducers, Machine Learning for Morphology
Syntax: Introduction of major frameworks, Dependency Structures, Creating Tree/Dependency-banks, Issues for Pakistani Languages
Semantics: Hand created resources (Verbnet, Wordnet, Propbank), Distributional Semantics
Text Mining and other than above topics of NLP will not be covered in this series. We may discuss planning for other series of events after getting feedback/experience from this event.

Tentative Plan:
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Online Tool: Zoom
Schedule: Saturday: 3:00-3:40 Presentation Session
      Saturday: 3:50-4:10 Discussion Session
      Sunday: 3:00-3:40 Presentation + Discussion Session
Special interest groups may schedule additional sessions for collaboration and development.


Plan for 9th&10th May, 2020:
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Saturday: 3:00-3:40PM Introduction (by Tafseer Ahmed)
Saturday: 3:50-4:30PM Discussion about future sessions
Sunday 3:00-3:40PM Introduction to Programming & relevant libraries

Plan for 16th&17th May, 2020:
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Saturday 3:00PM, Morphological Features, Morphology of Nouns, Finite State Transducers
Sunday 3:00PM, Issues in Morphology of Pakistani Languages, Unsupervised Learning of Morphology