LING 6570

Applied Natural Language Processing

NOTE: Future plans for LING 6570 are unclear.
Those interested in a basic course in text processing are invited to look at the Humanities Computing sequence taught by Dr. Ramsay in the English Department.

Information for Spring 2004:

3:30-4:45 p.m. Tuesday/Thursday
Meeting in the Artificial Intelligence Center
(Room 111, Graduate Studies Research Center)

Instructor: Dr. Michael A. Covington, mc@ai.uga.edu

Catalogue description: Not open to students with credit in CSCI(LING) 8570. Computer processing of human languages, intended for linguists with a variable amount of previous computer experience. Emphasis is on use of existing software rather than programming.

My comments: This course is designed for highly motivated linguistics students who do not have the programming background for CSCI/LING 8570 but need to use computers in their work. It is a somewhat free-form course in which students will choose and pursue their own projects; they are expected to show considerable initiative in doing so, and if possible, to arrive with a project or area of interest already in mind. Students in the course will try out a number of interesting technologies, including parsing, text analysis, speech synthesis and recognition, and state-of-the-art document design and typesetting. An introduction to programming in a language such as Python may be included. This course is also suitable for non-linguists with a variable amount of linguistics background.

This is not normally taken by AI students. Take CSCI/LING 8570 instead.

Requirements: Attendance; homework assignments; final project.

Academic honesty policy: The rules of the University apply to this course.

Required textbook:

Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing
 Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-095069-6
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(If the class decides to learn a programming language or pursue another topic, an additional book may be required.)

Caution! If you order your books online, be sure to place the order at least 1 month before the course begins, because we will use the textbooks on the first day. Textbooks are also available at the University Bookstore next to the Tate Student Center on campus.

Strongly recommended book:

Douglas Downing, Michael Covington, and Melody Mauldin Covington
Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms
 Barron's, ISBN 0-7641-2166-9
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