CS 6120 — Natural Language Processing

4 semester hoursGraduateLectureusually offered: fall, springArlington, VABostonMiami, FLOnlinePortland, MaineSeattle, WASilicon Valley, CAVancouver, CanadaHybridOnlineTraditional

Provides an introduction to 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 corpuses, 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.

Offering history

TermSectionsEnrolledCapacityFullOpen seats/section
Fall 2023311513188%5.3
Spring 2024424927890%7.3
Fall 2024620930968%16.7
Spring 2025525533377%15.6
Fall 2025625329486%6.8
Spring 2026621124885%6.2

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 35% · T 21% · W 21% · Th 20% · F 10%

Common patterns: async (25% of sections), M (15% of sections), T (14% of sections), MW (9% of sections), R (8% of sections), W (8% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

Fall

Spring

Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.

Unlocks

CS 6180, DADS 7305

Courses that list CS 6120 in their prerequisites.

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