Instructor's name: Dr. Radhika Mamidi
Instructor's email id: radhika270@gmail.com
Introduction to Computational Linguistics
ENG 270
I. Course Description: This course aims to introduce the students from various disciplines to the field of Computational Linguistics. Computational Linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which focuses on the use of computers to process or produce human language (also known as 'natural language', to distinguish it from computer languages). To this field, linguistics contributes an understanding of the special properties of language data, and provides theories and descriptions of language structure and use. Computer Science contributes theories and techniques for designing and implementing computer systems. In this course apart from the theory, the students will be made to get familiar with the already available language processing tools like POS taggers, Morph Analyzers and systems like Machine Translation.
II. Course Objectives:
At the end of the course, the student is expected to understand how computers understand and process language as we do.
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Have linguistic background | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cognitive Skills | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Understand and be able to analyze natural languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Interpersonal Skills & Responsibility | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Participate in classroom discussions | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Numerical & Communication Skills | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Use basic information & computer technology in language understanding
III. Course Content
IV. Course Components
VI. Course Requirements
- Regular attendance - Assignments, quizzes - Group discussions and presentations - Midterm and Final examination
VII. Office Hours
Sunday: 12pm – 1pm Wednesday: 12pm – 1pm A. Assessment Task
B. Schedule of Assessment
v No make-up/late exams will be held at any condition. All students must write the exam on the scheduled date. v If a student arrives 10 minutes late to the class, she will be marked absent for the hour. IX. Learning Resources A. References
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