INST736

Prerequisite: LING723, CMSC723, or INST735; or permission of instructor. Cross-listed with CMSC773, LING773. Credit only granted for: CMSC773, LING773, or INST736. Additional information: CMSC students may only receive PhD Comp. credit for CMSC723 or CMSC823, not both. Natural language processing with a focus on corpus-based statistical techniques. Topics include: stochastic language modeling, smoothing, noisy channel models, probabilistic grammars and parsing; lexical acquisition, similarity-based methods, word sense disambiguation, statistical methods in NLP applications; system evaluation.