Natural Language Processing

Catalog description

The course focuses on natural language understanding as a gateway to introduce students to the three principal subfields of NLP: syntax, which deals with sentence structure; semantics, which addresses the precise truth-functional meaning of utterances; and pragmatics, which investigates context-dependent meaning within specific discourse contexts. Both linguistic and statistical NLP approaches are presented, demonstrating their application across various domains. The course also sheds light on ongoing research challenges in the field.