Computer Science - Natural Language Understanding

Description

This course fills up quickly, if you do not get a spot, the wait list will open. In the case that a spot becomes available, Student Services will contact you. Make sure you have submitted your NDO application and required documents to be considered.

Project-oriented class focused on developing systems and algorithms for robust machine understanding of human language. Draws on theoretical concepts from linguistics, natural language processing, and machine learning. There will be special lectures on developing projects, presenting research results, and making connections with industry.

What you will learn

  • Lexical semantics
  • Distributed representations of meaning
  • Relation extraction
  • Semantic parsing
  • Sentiment analysis
  • Dialogue agents

Course Availability

The course schedule is displayed for planning purposes – courses can be modified, changed, or cancelled. Course availability will be considered finalized on the first day of open enrollment. For quarterly enrollment dates, please refer to our graduate education section.

Prerequisites

Students enrolling in this course must have proof of taken the prerequisites.

  • One of LINGUIST180, CS124, CS224N, CS224S, or CS221
  • And logical/semantics such as LINGUIST130A or B, CS157, or PHIL150