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 175-241 Natural Language

Note

Available as 175-341 at 3rd-year level.

Availability

Not offered in 1998.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Dr Dominique Estival

Prerequisites

50 points completed in Computer Science subjects, or by permission of the subject convener. This unit cannot be taken by those who have completed Introduction to the Study of Language I and/or Introduction to the Study of Language II.

Contact

Two lectures and one tutorial each week

Subject Description

An introduction to linguistic analysis and representation with a focus on issues and problems in the computational modelling of natural language (understanding, generation and translation).

Assessment

Assignments and an end of semester take home exam, totalling 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts
  • Akmajian, A., Demers, R., Farmer, A. & Harnish, R. (1990), Linguistics: an introduction to language and communication. (Revised 3rd ed.) Cambridge, Mass MIT Press.
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