Time: TuThu, 10:55am-12:10pm
Room: Bloomberg 161
Class listing: CS5740
Instructor: Yoav Artzi
Office hours: Tuesday, 4:15pm-5:15pm
Location: Bloomberg 371
Teaching assistants: Xinya Du and Valts Blukis
Graders: Emily Tseng, Kelly Wang, and Iris Zhang
TA Office hours: Friday, 11:00am-12:00pm
Location: Bloomberg 360
CMS | Piazza
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.