Advanced natural language processing

Lectures: Two sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session

Upon completion of 6.864, students will be able to explain and apply fundamental algorithms and techniques in the area of natural language processing (NLP). In particular, students will:

MIT courses 6.034 and 6.046J, or permission of instructor

Suggested textbooks for the course are:

Jurafsky, David, and James H. Martin. Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2000. ISBN: 0130950696.

Manning, Christopher D., and Hinrich Schütze. Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. ISBN: 0262133601.

Students completing 6.864 will have demonstrated an ability to:

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