LING 4424 - Computational Linguistics

(crosslisted) COGST 4240, CS 4744
(MQR)

Fall. 4 credits.

Prerequisite: CS 2800 or LING 3302 or LING 3303, or permission of instructor.

M. Rooth.

Computational models of natural languages. Topics include tree syntax and treebank databases; broad-coverage probabilistic grammars; finite state generative phonology; computational semantics; computational minimalist grammar; finite state optimality-theoretic phonology; Hidden Markov models of acoustic realization; text and speech corpora; lab methods in Unix/Linux environment.