Computational techniques for understanding and producing natural
language, investigating the structure and meaning of sentences and
connected discourse. Symbolic and probabilistic techniques are
discussed.
Level | Credits | Class Time Distribution | Prerequisites |
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UG | 4 | 3 cl | 630; 625 or Ling 684.01; Ling 201; or permission of instructor |
Number of Hours | Topic |
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7.5 | Course intro, POS tagging and parsing |
7.5 | Semantic analysis, logical forms |
6 | Supra-sentential processing: speech acts, rhetorical relations, contextual effects on meaning |
6 | Generation |
3 | Exams and review |
Labs | 30% |
Project | 20% |
Midterm | 20% |
Final Exam | 25% |
Class Participation | 5% |
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