LING 506

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Topics in Computational Ling

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Credit: 4 hours.

Provides an introduction to practical problems in computational linguistics in a laboratory setting. At the beginning of the semester, a substantial project will be assigned to the class, and the class will work as a team towards implementing a solution, and evaluating the final product against a test corpus, which will also be developed during the class. Topical readings will also be assigned and will be discussed.

Approved for letter or S/U grading. May be repeated in more than one section per term to a maximum of 8 hours, if topics vary; may be repeated in subsequent terms to a maximum of 12 hours, if topics vary. Prerequisite: LING 406, and an introductory level Computer Science programming course, or consent of instructor.

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LING 506 class schedule data for spring 2025
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	36523	Lecture-Discussion	DJ	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	G48 Literatures, Cultures, & Ling	Dunn, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Section Title: Computational Syntax Section Info: Meets with LING 490 Topic: Computational Syntax Description: An introduction to both computational models of syntactic phenomena and the syntactic evaluation of language models. Topics include types of grammars (representations), the use of grammars for parsing and generation, the learning of grammars (induction), the comparison of grammars (variation and typology), and the targeted syntactic evaluation of large language models (probing). From a theoretical perspective, the course works mainly with phrase structure grammar, dependency grammar, head-driven phrase structure grammar, and construction grammar. The intended audience is either (i) students in computational linguistics who are interested in working with syntactic phenomena or (ii) students in syntax who are interested in a linguistic evaluation of computational models. Prerequisite: LING 100 or LING 400. No previous computational experience is required.
	72382	Lecture-Discussion	MS	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	205 Gregory Hall	Anand, G Maskharashvili, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Section Title: Computational Semantics Section Info: Meets with LING 490 Topic: Computational Semantics Semantics attributes a tenable interpretation or representation of the "meaning" of a sentence, whereas computational semantics studies how to arrive at that interpretation. Assuming, for instance, that we know how to represent meanings of ‘dog’, ‘every,’ and ‘bark,’ and we know how to put those words together to spell out a sentence (syntax) ‘every dog barks.’ Under these premises, computational semantics aims at computing the representation of the meaning of ‘every dog barks.’ Prerequisite: Either of the following ones: LING 307, LING 400, LING 407, LING 438, LING 507, LING 547, LING 551