16.7 points 2nd and 3rd years Dominique Estival. 175-241/341 Natural Language OR at least one core 2nd/3rd year linguistics subject. Students are encouraged to take 175-215/315 Formal Syntax beforehand or concurrently. Second semester 3 hours of seminars a week. Students who complete this subject should be able to:

• demonstrate familiarity with current frameworks for approaching the types of application covered in the subject, and the major historical developments leading up to them;
• demonstrate an awareness of the specific conceptual and practical issues and difficulties of the types of applications covered in the subject;
• design simple computer programs to solve the kinds of language processing problems considered in the subject.

A project-based introduction to techniques and issues in computational linguistics. Assignments, essays and projects, totalling 5,000 words. Smith, G. (1991), Computers and Human Language, Oxford University Press