CS 4120 — Natural Language Processing

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureusually offered: fall, springtypical days: TBostonOnlineOnlineTraditional

Introduces the computational modeling of human language; the ongoing effort to create computer programs that can communicate with people in natural language; and current applications of the natural language field, such as automated document classification, intelligent query processing, and information extraction. Topics include computational models of grammar and automatic parsing, statistical language models and the analysis of large text corpora, natural language semantics and programs that understand language, models of discourse structure, and language use by intelligent agents. Course work includes formal and mathematical analysis of language models and implementation of working programs that analyze and interpret natural language text.

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Offering history

TermSectionsEnrolledCapacityFullOpen seats/section
Fall 202313636100%0.0
Spring 2024212513096%2.5
Summer A 20241243667%12.0
Fall 20241578766%30.0
Spring 20251666897%2.0
Summer A 20251259726%72.0
Fall 202529411582%10.5
Spring 2026214014299%1.0

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Share of recent sections by weekday: M 32% · T 63% · W 39% · Th 15% · F 39%

Common patterns: TF (39% of sections), MW (17% of sections), T (16% of sections), W (14% of sections), MTWR (9% of sections), MR (6% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

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