CS 4740 - Natural Language Processing

(crosslisted) COGST 4740, LING 4474
(SMR-AS)

Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: CS 2110. Co-meets with CS 5740.

C. Cardie.

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 methods for handling underlying linguistic phenomena (e.g., syntactic analysis, word sense disambiguation and discourse analysis) and vital emerging applications (e.g., machine translation, sentiment analysis, summarization and information extraction).