Course Info for Ling 889B, Spring 2000
Course Info for Ling 889B, Spring 2000
Computational Models of Language Processing
Essentials
What's the course about?
For details see the topics (with detailed bibliography). This course will look at
computational models of language processing, with an emphasis on
modeling in psycholinguistics and on computational psycholinguistics.
(As examples of current work in the latter area, see the 1997 Conference on
Computational Psycholinguistics and the thematic session on computational
psycholinguistics at the ACL'99 conference.)
There are no official prerequisites, although background knowledge in
psycholinguistics (Ling640 or equivalent) and computational
linguistics (Ling645 or equivalent) would be very helpful.
Is any programming required?
No computer programming is required for this course. Algorithmic
concepts will be discussed but there is no prerequisite of previous
computational experience. (Don't panic!)
How will the course be graded?:
- Class participation
- Class presentation:
Students will be responsible for taking charge of
at least one of the readings; this will include
summarizing the article in writing, as related
to the course, presenting it in class, and guiding the discussion.
- Final project:
Examples of suitable projects include: synthesizing a body of
previous work and adding new insights from a linguistic perspective;
motivating and designing in detail an experiment that tests
hypotheses associated with existing computational models;
implementing a computational model and assessing the extent
to which it is faithful to psycholinguistic data.