Fall 2025 Computer Science W4705 section 002

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSI

Call Number 12849
Day & Time
Location
TR 2:40pm-3:55pm
To be announced
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor John Hewitt
Type LECTURE
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

Computational approaches to natural language generation and understanding. Recommended preparation: some previous or concurrent exposure to AI or Machine Learning. Topics include information extraction, summarization, machine translation, dialogue systems, and emotional speech. Particular attention is given to robust techniques that can handle understanding and generation for the large amounts of text on the Web or in other large corpora. Programming exercises in several of these areas.

Web Site Vergil
Department Computer Science
Enrollment 50 students (150 max) as of 8:05PM Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Subject Computer Science
Number W4705
Section 002
Division Interfaculty
Open To Barnard College, Business, Columbia College, Engineering:Undergraduate, Engineering:Graduate, GSAS, General Studies, Journalism
Section key 20253COMS4705W002