Instructor
Michael Gasser
Lindley 230H,
gasser@cs.indiana.edu
Office hours: M, Th 10:00-11:30;
appointments
Time and Place
MWF 9:05-9:55, BH 208
Textbook
Allen, James (1995), Natural language understanding,
Benjamins/Cummings, 2nd ed.
Plus articles on connectionist NLP
Course Content
This course provides an introduction to the field of computational
linguistics (natural language processing), including both analysis and
generation. Speech processing, machine translation, and computational
approaches to language acquisition are also given some attention. We
will be concerned both with how well particular approaches solve
practical problems and with how well they model human data.
The course is divided into two relatively separate sections. The
first is concerned with symbolic approaches to language processing.
The emphasis here is on unification-based models, in particular, the
Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar framework. A range of linguistic
phenomena, including phonology, morphology, and syntax and semantics,
will be treated. The second part of the course deals with statistical
and connectionist approaches to language processing and acquisition.
Prerequisites
Programming experience, preferably in Lisp, Scheme, Prolog,
C(++), or Java. For non-linguistics students, some linguistics
background is recommended.
Particulars
[IU Bloomington] [IU Linguistics Department] [IU Cognitive Science Program]
Last updated: 16 September 1997
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