COMP.5420 Natural Language Processing (Formerly 91.442 & 91.542)

Id: 038884 Credits: 3-3

Description

This course introduces principles and techniques behind natural language processing (NLP), and covers a large selection of important automatic text processing tasks. Selected topics include n-gram language models, part-of-speech tagging, statistical parsing, word sense disambiguation, discourse segmentation, information extraction, sentiment analysis, machine translation. Quantitative techniques are emphasized, with a focus on applying statistical models to large collections of text. The course provides students with a hands-on experience in building a substantial NLP application of their choice.

Prerequisites

COMP.4220 Machine Learning.

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