Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing (NLP) concerns the interaction between computers and human language, in particular how to build systems to process and analyze large amounts of human language data. It has become an important technology in many parts of computer science, facilitating key applications of large-scale text understanding, automatic question answering, knowledge base construction, information retrieval, text or speech-driven dialogue agents, translation, text summarization, etc.

This course aims to introduce the principles and techniques for Natural Language Processing. Through the lectures, assignments, and the group project, students will gain an understanding of classic and modern techniques for language understanding and generation and learn the skills to design, develop, and evaluate their own Natural Language Processing systems and applications.