Natural Language Processing - Syllabus

ICS 482 Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing (pdf doc htm)

Course Objectives:

1. Gain an appreciation of the complexity of natural language.

2. Survey some applications of natural language processing.

3. Understand basic processes and representations used in syntax, semantics, and other components of natural language processing.

4. Explore Web resources for natural language processing.

5. Practice individual investigations in chosen topics.

Moreover, the following skills will be addressed in the course by adapting and embedding reasonable methods in the assignments, lectures, student presentations, quizzes and exams.

Creative Thinking	Decision Making
Positive attitude/ Self esteem	Communication skills
Attendance and Punctuality	Leadership skills
Ability to Learn	Team skills
Using Technology	Attendance and Punctuality
Reasoning and Driving for Results	Locating, organizing, analyzing information

Course Description: This course examines a range of issues concerning computer systems that can process human languages. Among the issues to be discussed are morphological and syntactic processing, semantic interpretation, discourse processing and knowledge representation. (see Course Syllabus pdf doc htm)