Natural Language Processing

Catalog description

This course is an introduction to natural language processing in Computer Science. There will be a review of elementary text, tree, and graph processing, and an introduction to syntactic and semantic processing. For syntax, Backus-Naur form grammars, sentence generation/recognition, augmented transition networks, and parsing strategies will be studied. For semantics, case grammar theory, and parsing strategies will be studied. There will be case studies of current systems as well as programming practice. For graduate credit, a student will be required to write a term paper or execute a project.