LING 5150: Statistical Natural Language Processing
(Cross-listed with HCI 5150/ ENGL 5150).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Introduction to computational techniques involving human language and speech in applications such as information retrieval and extraction, automatic text categorization, word prediction, intelligent Web searching, spelling and grammar checking, speech recognition and synthesis, statistical machine translation, n-grams, POS-tagging, word-sense disambiguation, on-line lexicons and thesauri, markup languages, corpus analysis, and Python programming language.