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.

M. van Schijndel.

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.