General Information =================== Meeting details ---------------- Course website: http://courses.washington.edu/ling571 Adobe Connect course site: http://uweoconnect.extn.washington.edu/ling571win2010/ Meeting times: Mondays and Wednesdays 3:30--4:50pm (01/04/10 -- 03/12/10) Location: `Loew 202 `_ Instructor ---------- Instructor: `Scott Farrar `_ Teaching assistant: Steven Moran E-mail contact: {farrar,stiv} @u.washington.edu Scott's office location: Scott Farrar, Padelford B-201 Scott's office hours: Tuesdays 3:00--4:00pm, and by appt. Steve's office location: TBA Steve's office hours: TBA More info --------- **Aims**: To master algorithms for associating deep or elaborated linguistic structures with naturally occurring linguistic data. We will stress two cross-cutting themes in the course: evaluation metrics and dealing with ambiguity. To a lesser degree we will also investigate multilingual resources. enspace **Tasks**: Students will implement various NLP algorithms including: syntactic parsers, semantic analyzers, and language generators. enspace **Prerequisites**: strong programming skills, a knowledge of probability and statistics, basic linguistics Adobe Connect admin login: http://uweoconnect.extn.washington.edu