COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

Catalog description

Introduction to the study and modeling of the computational properties of human language in order to develop linguistic models that may be used to test theoretical constructs about this faculty. Application of aspects of linguistic theory and formal language theory in analyzing structures in natural language and evaluating complexity and generative adequacy in models of language competence, processing and acquisition. Design and implementation of rule systems as well as phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic representations for natural language parsers. Survey of some on-line tools, such as tagged corpora, parsers and semantic webs. Discussion of the interdisciplinary relationships between computational linguistics, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence.