LING 4424 - Computational Linguistics I

(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. Co-meets with LING 6424.

M. van Schijndel.

Computational models of natural languages. Topics are drawn from: tree syntax and context free grammar, finite state generative morpho-phonology, feature structure grammars, logical semantics, tabular parsing, Hidden Markov models, categorial and minimalist grammars, text corpora, information-theoretic sentence processing, discourse relations, and pronominal coreference.