LING 4424 - Computational Linguistics

(crosslisted) COGST 4240, CS 4744
(MQR-AS)

Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: LING 1101 or equivalent background in linguistics and CS 2110 or equivalent preparation in computer science

Staff.

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.