CMSC 35100

Natural Language Processing

Prerequisites: CMSC 25000 or 35000, or consent of instructor.

Catalog Description: An introduction to the theory and practice of natural language processing, with applications to both text and speech. Topics include regular expressions, finite state automata, morphology, part-of-speech tagging, context-free grammers, parsing, semantics, discourse, and dialogue. Symbolic and probabilistic models are presented. Techniques for automatic acquisition of linguistic knowledge are emphasized.

Instructors: G.-A. Levow
Quarter offered: Spring
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