LANGUAGE AND TECHNOLOGY.

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Fundamentals of how technology is used to represent, process, and organize human language. We will examine modern technologies such as autocorrect, speech synthesis, speech recognition, machine translation, and chatbots. Students will be able to describe fundamentals of how these technologies work, with a focus on the aspects of human language that present challenges for their development. We will also examine social and ethical considerations surrounding language technology, such as privacy, machine intelligence, and bias.