LING 5350 - Computational Linguistics: Applications

Meets with LING 6350. Introduction and exploration of computational approaches to human language common in the commercial environment. Overview of companies that practice CL and problems they address, with goal of understanding what commercially-employed computational linguists do. Includes a project in which students construct a computer application, using a number of pre-built components provided by the instructor (e.g.part-of-speech tagger, syntactic parser), to demonstrate a working knowledge of how to address a CL problem of their choice.