B651: Spring 2008
Natural Language Processing
Indiana University Computer Science Department

Where, when, who, how

Section: 25498

Time and place

MW, 9:30 - 10:45, LH 102

Instructor: Mike Gasser

• Office hours: M 2:00-3:30pm, Eigenmann 804; Th 9:00-10:30, Lindley 230H
• Email (please put "B651" in the subject line)

Grades

Oncourse site

Overview and prerequisites

This course will examine a selection of topics in the field of natural language processing (computational linguistics), where feasible applying them to the practical problem of machine translation between English and a very different language, Swahili. We will deal with structure and meaning at the level of word, sentence, and discourse and will consider both statistical and knowledge-based models, as well as hybrid models.

Students should normally have taken at least one course in artificial intelligence or computational linguistics.

Readings

There is no textbook. Readings will come from recent journals and conference proceedings. There will be remedial lectures and lecture notes on linguistic topics for students with no linguistics background. All readings will be available online.

© 2008. Indiana University and Michael Gasser. www.cs.indiana.edu/classes/B651/index.html 2008-01-03