CS 5740 - Natural Language Processing

Fall. 3-4 credits, variable. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: CS 2110 or equivalent and CS 4780, CS 4786, or CS 5785 or by permission of instructor. Co-meets with COGST 4740/CS 4740/LING 4474.

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This course constitutes an introduction to natural language processing (NLP), the goal of which is to enable computers to use human languages as input, output, or both. NLP is at the heart of many of today’s most exciting technological achievements, including machine translation, automatic conversational assistants and Internet search. Possible topics include summarization, machine translation, sentiment analysis and information extraction as well as methods for handling the underlying phenomena (e.g., syntactic analysis, word sense disambiguation, and discourse analysis).