CmpE 561 Natural Language Processing

There has been a striking growth in text data such as web pages, news articles, e-mail messages, social media data, and scientific publications in the recent years. Developing tools for processing and utilizing this huge amount of textual information is getting increasingly important. This course will cover techniques for processing and making sense of text data written in natural (human) language. We will examine the core tasks in natural language processing, including language modeling, syntactic analysis, semantic interpretation, and discourse analysis. We will also explore how these techniques can be used in applications such as information extraction, question answering, summarization, and sentiment analysis.