Course: L445 - The Computer & Natural Language (Fall 2003)
Section: 3307

Instructor:     Damir Cavar 
phone 855-3268
Memorial Hall, room 401
Office hours:   TUE+TH 13-14h, or by appointment

Course Information

Present-day computer systems work with human language in many
different forms, whether as stored data in the form of text, typed
queries to a database or search engine, or speech commands in a voice
-driven computer system. We also increasingly expect computers to
produce human language, such as user-friendly error messages and
synthesized speech. Through selected readings, exercises,
demonstrations and Python programming, this course will a.) survey a
range of issues relating natural language to computers b.) provide
practical experience about representation and use of natural language
on computers c.) illustrate key principles of natural language
processing using an imperative programming language like Python.
Emphasis will be put on basic natural language processing strategies
and technologies using linguistic theory.

(No prior programming experience is assumed.)