LING 4424 - Computational Linguistics

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

Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: Elementary Python (CS 1133 suffices); LING 1101 or CS 2800 or PHIL 2310. Prerequisite for CS majors: Elementary Python and CS 2800.

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.