CS5740: Natural Language Processing (Spring 2018)

This course constitutes a depth-first technical introduction to natural language processing (NLP). NLP is at the heart of many of today’s most exciting technological achievements, including machine translation, automatic conversational assistants and Internet search. The goal of the course is to provide a deep understanding of the language of the field, including algorithms, core problems, methods, and data. Possible topics include text classification, lexical semantics, language modeling, machine translation, tagging and sequence modeling, parsing, compositional semantics, summarization, question answering, language grounding, information extraction, and sentiment analysis.

This course is not about using off-the-shelf NLP tools. If you are interested in tools and frameworks, the resources section includes pointers to get your search started and questions answered.