LING
581
Natural Lang Processing
Hours
3.0 Credit, 3 Lecture, 0 Lab
Semester
Fall,
Winter
Intensive overview of natural language processing, including computational techniques, hands-on experience with linguistic technologies and corpora, language modeling approaches, and readings from current research.
NLP Tools
Students will be able to demonstrate by hands-on experience how to use NLP tools in the performance of linguistically interesting tasks.
NLP-related Computation
Students will be able to demonstrate application of a novel, nonontrivial programming approach to solving some aspect of NLP-related computation.
Computational Techniques
Students will be able to recognize and describe how computational techniques are used successfully in various areas of natural language processing.
Current Research Literature and Trends
Students will read, understand, discuss, and assess current research literature and trends in the relevant areas.