COMPUTERS AND LANGUAGE

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One hour of lecture, one hour of discussion and two hours of computer laboratory per week. Introduction to the application and implementation of programs to encode natural language in computers with a programming language. Study and practice of how to build explicit natural language representations in a computer by means of linguistic modeling using data structures, and how the computer can obtain knowledge about language by means of both data-driven and theorydriven approaches. Basic handling of data types and variables, control structures, texts and files, modules, functions, and object-oriented programming. Discussion about how computers support language-related tasks, as well as the possibilities and limitations of human language technologies. LING 4180/