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Course Schedule - Fall Semester 2025
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LING 430 001 (CRN: 14866)
COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
Long Title: COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
Department: Linguistics
Instructor: Crouch, Caroline
Meeting: 1:00PM - 2:15PM TR (25-AUG-2025 - 5-DEC-2025)
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Prerequisites: ANTH 200 OR LING 200
Section Max Enrollment: 40
Section Enrolled: 19
Enrollment data as of: 20-APR-2025 3:21PM
Final Exam: No Final Exam
Description: This course offers a hands-on introduction to Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, an interdisciplinary field that uses computers to analyze, model, or produce human language. We will learn to process, search, and analyze texts, including tokenization, using regular expressions, and assessing the sentiment and topic of documents. We will study computational methods for processing the structure and compositional semantics of speech, such as part-of-speech tagging, syntactic parsing, information extraction, and understanding meaning. We will also cover more advanced applied topics such as dialogue engineering, machine translation, and automatic speech recognition. While the course does not require a formal background in programming, some familiarity with Python may be helpful.