CS 546
Machine Learning in NLP
Credit: 4 hours.
An introduction to the central learning frameworks and techniques that have emerged in the field of natural language processing and found applications in several areas in text and speech processing: from information retrieval and extraction, through speech recognition to syntax, semantics and language understanding related tasks. Presents the theoretical paradigms -- learning theoretic, probabilistic, and information theoretic -- and the relations among them, as well as the main algorithmic techniques developed within these and in key natural language applications. Prerequisite: CS 446 and CS 473.