LING723

Prerequisite: CMSC421 or CMSC422; or students who have taken courses with comparable content may contact the department; or permission of instructor. Cross-listed with: CMSC723, INST735. Credit only granted for: CMSC723, LING723, or INST735. Additional information: CMSC students may only receive PhD Comp. credit for CMSC723 or CMSC823, not both. Fundamental methods in natural language processing. Topics include: finite-state methods, context-free and extended context-free models of syntax; parsing and semantics interpretation; n-gram and Hidden Markov models, part-of-speech tagging; natural language applications such as machine translation, automatic summarization, and question answering.