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: 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 virtual office location: Ling571 GoPost
Steve’s virtual office hours: 12:00 – 1:00pm, Tues
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.
Tasks: Students will implement various NLP algorithms including: syntactic parsers, semantic analyzers, and language generators.
Prerequisites: Strong programming skills, a knowledge of probability and statistics, basic linguistics.