The Department of Computer Science offers a new pop-up course on Natural Language Generation for News Automation in teaching period III, Jan-Feb 2017. The course format will be a study group. The course is related to the Immersive Automation research project that develops methods for automation of news content generation.

The course will meet on Tuesdays at 10-12 during 17 Jan - 28 Feb. It is intended for MSc or PhD students.

Outline: We cover a grounding in the traditional stages of the NLG pipeline, through to recent advances, with a focus on news. This course will begin with an overview of the typical technical architecture of a Natural Language Generation (NLG) system and some of the techniques used at different stages of the pipeline. In the following sessions, each presented by a different participant, we will look more closely at recent advances in different technologies that form parts of the traditional pipeline, as well as more recent alternatives to the pipeline, including NLG using neural networks.

For more information, see the course page at https://courses.helsinki.fi/582767/117339112 or contact Dr. Mark Granroth-Wilding.