Course Overview
Provides a fundamental understanding of the problems in natural language understanding by computers, and the theory and practice of current computational linguistic systems. Of interest to students of artificial intelligence, algorithms, and the computational processes of comprehension and understanding.
- Time:
- Tuesday & Friday, 09:10–10:30.
- Location:
- Volen 106
- Textbooks:
- Speech and Language Processing
(Second Edition),
by Daniel Jurafsky & James H. Martin
- Natural Language Toolkit by Steven Bird, Eewan Klein, and Edward Loper
Professor
- James Pustejovsky
- ⟨jamesp@cs.brandeis.edu⟩
- Office:
- Volen 258
- Office Hours:
- T.B.D.
Teaching Assistant
- Alex Plotnick
- ⟨plotnick@cs.brandeis.edu⟩
- Office:
- Volen 110
- Office Hours:
- T.B.D.
News
- The link to Chapter 23 of the text has been fixed; you know where to find it.
- Programming assignment #3 is now up.
- Quiz #2 is postponed until Tuesday, March 25. Class is cancelled for March 18.
- Programming assignment #2 is now (completely) up.
- Programming assignment #1 is now up.