CS 7347: Natural Language Processing

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: CS 6041 or Admission to the Artificial Intelligence MS program
This course introduces the theory and practice of Natural Language Processing (NLP). It covers modern NLP techniques for computers to understand natural language and to produce services such as language translation, question answering, conversation agent, and performing any language-related tasks. The course covers major problems in NLP such as word similarities, parsing, machine translation, entity recognition, question answering, and sentence comprehension. The course includes the design and development of NLP systems and applications.